Quotes by Colin Powell

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

Related topics: Motivational Leadership

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie