“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
Failure
“I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.”
AttitudeAll Quotes by Colin Powell
“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“We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.”
Government“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“I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.”
Attitude“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.”
Peace“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“Get mad, then get over it.”
Anger“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“It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
Morning“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”
Attitude“Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.”
Age“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“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”
Health“Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.”
Politics“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.”
Marriage“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
Business“Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?”
Great“Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!”
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