“I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.”
Attitude
“Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.”
PoliticsAll Quotes by Colin Powell
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
Failure“Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.”
Business“I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.”
Work“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
Great“In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.”
Legal“You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.”
Power“It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
Morning“In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.”
Great“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.”
Politics“It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'”
Anger“I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.”
History“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
Business“Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.”
Hope“Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.”
Best“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.”
History“We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.”
Government“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
Failure“Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.”
Age“When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.”
Government