Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.


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Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your...
COLIN POWELL
It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
COLIN POWELL
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
COLIN POWELL
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard...
COLIN POWELL
In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
POWELL CLAYTON
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
ANTHONY POWELL
The BBG may want to start numerous new broadcast services, or revive VOA (Voice of America) services...
ADAM POWELL
Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
ADAM POWELL
In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
ADAM POWELL
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
ADAM POWELL
Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, th...
ADAM POWELL
Either move or be moved.
COLIN POWELL
Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field ...
COLIN POWELL
90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
COLIN POWELL
Get mad, then get over it.
COLIN POWELL
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
COLIN POWELL
To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
JOHN POWELL
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of...
ANTHONY POWELL
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
ANTHONY POWELL
But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean l...
COLIN POWELL
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came int...
ANTHONY POWELL
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
COLIN POWELL
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process i...
ANTHONY POWELL
Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take...
E.P. POWELL
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained fai...
ANTHONY POWELL
Communication works for those who work at it.
JOHN POWELL
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world t...
JOHN POWELL
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
COLIN POWELL
Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
COLIN POWELL
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories o...
COLIN POWELL
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
JOHN POWELL
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...
COLIN POWELL
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
COLIN POWELL
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that wou...
COLIN POWELL
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousan...
WILLIAM POWELL
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approac...
COLIN POWELL
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
COLIN POWELL
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...
COLIN POWELL
Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that ou...
JONATHAN POWELL
Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used...
LUCY POWELL
In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade e...
LUCY POWELL
The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, ...
COLIN POWELL
It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a p...
COLIN POWELL
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they ...
DAWN POWELL
I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winni...
COLIN POWELL
When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be ...
COLIN POWELL
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you&#...
COLIN POWELL
In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a no...
COLIN POWELL
If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity wit...
COLIN POWELL