FastSaying

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.


Colin Powell

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL Success is no accident. There are no secrets to success. It is hard work work &commitment towards en...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good ...
ALPHONSO JACKSON With determination, discipline and hard work all dreams become a reality.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have ...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ Do not dream your life, live your dream.To make dream a reality it takes effort, hard work, determin...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
CEELO GREEN Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
LARA STONE Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-...
DAN GABLE It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL Jujitsu is blood, sweat and tears. It takes hard work, perseverance and tenacity to be successful.
JOSE ORTIZ Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend ...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, make...
KYLE HILL The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good educ...
ALPHONSO JACKSON Sweat, sweat, sweat, a ton of sweat, and hard work.
COURTNEY PROCTOR Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.
JOHN GARAMENDI What is hard for us to understand well, and hard for me to explain to Secretary (of State Colin) Pow...
JOSEPH PRUEHER If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice...
CARLI LLOYD If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is ...
JOHN MADDEN Never stop dreaming. Yesterday's dream can become the reality of tomorrow, and the innovation of the...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define th...
ADRIENNE BAILON I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there&...
TA-NEHISI COATES I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
LILLY SINGH Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I...
ZENDAYA The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't...
MICHAEL CARBONARO The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessa...
BILL RANCIC Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
KATEE SACKHOFF called Peter Wallison -- Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on Iran.
CASPAR WEINBERGER I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld
JOSE AZNAR I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld
JOSE MARIA AZNAR Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how t...
ROBERT RODRIGUEZ Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
GEORGE A. MOORE Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean t...
TRICIA HELFER called
Peter Wallison -- Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on
Iran.
CASPAR WEINBERGER It only takes tenacity,dogged determination & never giving up for dreams to turn reality.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn'...
RAF SIMONS Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.
TOM RACHMAN Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how ...
KAREN SALMANSOHN Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.
HANNAH STORM Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We ...
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT I think it still brings a lot of the same lessons that it brought 20 years ago. It's a snapshot of t...
CHARLES FULLER Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find all...
DAN GABLE Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th...
SUSAN POWTER I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson'...
LINDA RONSTADT This dream has become a reality.
ANTONIO MARIA COSTA I'm a watch guy - to me, they symbolize hard work and determination.
PHILIP WINCHESTER Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration exc...
DONALD RUMSFELD America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matt...
CRISTINA SARALEGUI The media doesn't always reflect reality.
JOHN CATSIMATIDIS I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I...
SAMANTHA STOSUR It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.
ALAN SHEARER The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else'...
AZAR NAFISI It's been a lot of hard work, sweat and tears.
ANDREW FLANAGAN It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hel...
ELLEN BURSTYN This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determi...
SAMUEL BARNETT Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin...
CAMERON RUSSELL With Magic Leap, your brain doesn't distinguish what's real and what's Magic Leap. Becau...
RONY ABOVITZ Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.
RUSH LIMBAUGH You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.
DAVE RAMSEY Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media...
GEORGE WILL When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up....
DORIS ROBERTS After working for a couple of years, I have realised how much hard work it takes to become an actor,...
TIGER SHROFF FaraWell or Goodbye it really doesn't matter it shows one magic. If you find it, you are a magician!
DEYTH BANGER It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.
BLANCHE LINCOLN Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't delive...
HARRY BROWNE One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no qu...
DANIEL INOUYE If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, ...
BETTY WHITE I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea...
PATRICK MURPHY Yet critics on the left find it incomprehensible that any black American could succeed on his or her...
ALPHONSO JACKSON On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he do...
BRUCE BERESFORD Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job descript...
JAY PARINI Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I ...
SALLY QUINN An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
ORLANDO ALOYSIUS BATTISTA I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie; t...
JAMES GUNN The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, th...
DUFF GOLDMAN It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sou...
H. L. MENCKEN Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play...
MIKE POSNER Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
LAURYN HILL In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belo...
IVAN TURGENEV Scales are tipped with sweat from hard work
MOHAMED ALI ALMADFAI All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's calle...
MICHELE BACHMANN The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of t...
JAMES CAMERON Everyone wishes to lead a life which they have always dreamt of. There always remains a gap between ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to sca...
REID HOFFMAN If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pu...
PAUL KEATING I think you have to make time for yourself so that work doesn't become the end-all be-all.
MEGHAN MARKLE It doesn't matter how hard you work, there are forces that kind of prevent you from being the be...
SHAHID KHAN Changing a habit or routine doesn't happen overnight. It takes a little bit of time and may take...
JOHN RAMPTON I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transfo...
KARIN SLAUGHTER They may think that all military officers are George Patton, but what about Colin Powell? We're real...
ALAN ROGERS The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn...
RUSH LIMBAUGH It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.
CHANEL IMAN I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The paro...
PAT ROBERTSON My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a ...
CRISTELA ALONZO American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Mos...
CHRIS HARDWICK Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.
SANTOSH KALWAR It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
J. C. WATTS

More Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
COLIN POWELL My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight o...
COLIN POWELL I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, w...
COLIN POWELL I want everybody to be scared to death of us. I don't say that in a bellicose way. I say that in a w...
COLIN POWELL The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have...
COLIN POWELL Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vi...
COLIN POWELL We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this count...
COLIN POWELL 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 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 But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean l...
COLIN POWELL Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
COLIN 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 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 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 Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...
COLIN 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 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 There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the...
COLIN POWELL Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But y...
COLIN POWELL You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda....
COLIN POWELL Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
COLIN POWELL Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
COLIN POWELL The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an o...
COLIN POWELL Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, t...
COLIN POWELL You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nati...
COLIN POWELL I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but th...
COLIN POWELL I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that...
COLIN POWELL Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
COLIN POWELL Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
COLIN POWELL Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
COLIN POWELL I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriag...
COLIN POWELL It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political s...
COLIN POWELL Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad ...
COLIN POWELL We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a re...
COLIN POWELL The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They hav...
COLIN POWELL If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excel...
COLIN POWELL Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in...
COLIN POWELL Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigila...
COLIN POWELL They find all kinds of excuses, a thousand excuses -- 'There are spies on this team. We don't want t...
COLIN POWELL you can't find actual germs on them.
COLIN POWELL We must not walk away, ... We must not find ourselves here this coming November with the pressure re...
COLIN POWELL Last month President Bush announced a pledge of $200 million to jump-start the global fund -- a bold...
COLIN POWELL They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it turned out...
COLIN POWELL When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll l...
COLIN POWELL The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
COLIN POWELL I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that wi...
COLIN POWELL does not seek dominion.
COLIN POWELL Where human rights and freedoms flourish, terrorists and tyrants do not thrive and conflict and chao...
COLIN POWELL advance America's foreign policy interests overseas - the backbone of our foreign affairs.
COLIN POWELL We'll certainly know tomorrow when NATO meets, but every indication I have now is that NATO is comin...
COLIN POWELL Everybody knows what [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein should be doing, and if he isn't doing it and ...
COLIN POWELL I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international comm...
COLIN POWELL It's always sad when you see a fellow citizen who is alleged to have committed these crimes out in f...
COLIN POWELL We have had a mixed relationship with Syria over the years,
COLIN POWELL We also made it clear that if they begin reprocessing (nuclear material), it changes the entire poli...
COLIN POWELL received reports that he may be in contact with various individuals.
COLIN POWELL most candid and direct conversations about what we do that annoys the other.
COLIN POWELL The trucks and train cars are easily moved and are designed to evade detection by inspectors, ... In...
COLIN POWELL [Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he had read a summary of the New Yorker article and str...
COLIN POWELL We also had a good discussion on the role of the secretary-general and his representative in the pol...
COLIN POWELL I made the case to Gen. Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I was not sure we ha...
COLIN POWELL How many other slips are there out there? It's not a slip, ... They knew they were there. Somebody k...
COLIN POWELL Though I continued to say it was an urgent problem, I don't think it was ever treated that way,
COLIN POWELL We will stand strong with our allies against those nations that pursue weapons of mass destruction,
COLIN POWELL Germany is one of our closest friends. And differences and difficulties will arise in any relationsh...
COLIN POWELL [The pictures] stunned every American, ... They showed acts that are despicable. The president has s...
COLIN POWELL I don't think it's racism, I think it's economic. But poverty disproportionately affects African-Ame...
COLIN POWELL I think we have do everything we can to show that we are functioning, that we can get through this p...
COLIN POWELL It's a tragic situation, ... The president is committed to doing everything he can to see that we ca...
COLIN POWELL In my conversations this afternoon with Arafat we discussed this in considerable detail, ... And he ...
COLIN POWELL Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can ...
COLIN POWELL The diplomatic track is alive and well, and I expect to see some developments along that track in th...
COLIN POWELL They're sanctioned up to the eyeballs and they don't have that much aid now, ... But I think we have...
COLIN POWELL Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach be...
COLIN POWELL They will not succeed, for we stand united in the global war against terrorism -- war that compels t...
COLIN POWELL Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see t...
COLIN POWELL The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be en...
COLIN POWELL Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it: Sp...
COLIN POWELL Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like w...
COLIN POWELL Have a vision. Be demanding.
COLIN POWELL I don't know where it's going to lead, ... But I think a new element of fragility and vulnerability ...
COLIN POWELL The suggestion he was kidnapped is wrong, and absurd,
COLIN POWELL Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around cor...
COLIN POWELL won't be standing by idly. We'll be watching, we'll be following it all, we'll be engaging... And we...
COLIN POWELL But he did enter airspace without permission and landed without permission, and for that we are very...
COLIN POWELL A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as rec...
COLIN POWELL market dynamism has replaced dogmatism.
COLIN POWELL A strategic partner China is not, ... But neither is China our inevitable and implacable foe.
COLIN POWELL See, we answered your question here, but we're not answering all these other questions that, perhaps...
COLIN POWELL If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's a...
COLIN POWELL The Chinese have said they're (the crew) being protected, I don't know from what,
COLIN POWELL President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ulti...
COLIN POWELL I was taught to think about mission and people. Mission. What are you trying to accomplish? Don't do...
COLIN POWELL because of the human dimensions of this catastrophe.
COLIN POWELL We talked about sanctions, and we talked about how one gets through the process of eventually liftin...
COLIN POWELL This is very regrettable
COLIN POWELL It is a problem that must be dealt with,
COLIN POWELL We haven't yet publicly identified the organization we believe was responsible, but when you look at...
COLIN POWELL You made reference to the president ...
COLIN POWELL has made repeated covert attempts to acquire high-specification aluminum tubes from 11 different cou...
COLIN POWELL That's what happened, notwithstanding any cell phone reports to the contrary,
COLIN POWELL We are still supporting access to WTO, but I can say that if we have to go for a vote on normal trad...
COLIN POWELL If somebody tried to move the team in now, we would find ways to thwart that.
COLIN POWELL a serious impediment to the conduct of America's foreign policy.
COLIN POWELL One thing you should not be doing is passing any resolutions that could inflame the situation.
COLIN POWELL [He said he had] extensive discussions ... strong views, and I have conveyed them to the North Korea...
COLIN POWELL The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic...
COLIN POWELL very sober, chilling message.
COLIN POWELL We don't intend to attack North Korea, we don't have any hostile intent notwithstanding their claims...
COLIN POWELL [While] we are all anxious to see restraint ... We understand it's important to get the terror down ...
COLIN POWELL We have a humanitarian catastrophe and a security crisis, ... It was a moving experience.
COLIN POWELL but the one thing I can assure you of is that it will be held in trust for the Iraqi people, to bene...
COLIN POWELL We have a way out of this crisis. It's called the Mitchell plan,
COLIN POWELL I will always treasure the four years that I have spent with President Bush and with the wonderful m...
COLIN POWELL I think the president has made his position clear: He wants the incursion stopped. He has noted some...
COLIN POWELL is very anxious to meet with me so we can talk about next steps, how we move forward from this curre...
COLIN POWELL We don't want to see weapons in the Korean Peninsula.
COLIN POWELL My folks have come up with models that span 80 years, ... We will explore ideas with our friends in ...
COLIN POWELL But I think we have to be very careful in this instance because if in the exercise of that right of ...
COLIN POWELL only a struggle to defend values ... which we share with the West and the vast majority of Arabs.
COLIN POWELL Our commitment is firm, is unmistakable. We want to see a Palestinian state created, ... We've got t...
COLIN POWELL The intent of the Iraqi regime to keep from turning over all of its weapons of mass destruction, see...
COLIN POWELL (Bin Laden) speaks to the people of Iraq and talks about their struggle and how he is in partnership...
COLIN POWELL to act fully as secretary of state until the day that I do leave. I expect that will be a number of ...
COLIN POWELL is to comply...with the agreements that were made at the end of the Gulf War.
COLIN POWELL If the international community does not take immediate action, countless deaths and terrible tragedy...
COLIN POWELL With the assumption of that greater burden, the burden on our troops should go down, and we should s...
COLIN POWELL We are in constant discussion with our German friends about these nations that are pursuing these ki...
COLIN POWELL Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego...
COLIN POWELL Command is lonely.
COLIN POWELL This is the era in our hemisphere of democracy, not dictators. Constitutions, not coups.
COLIN POWELL Iraq was a unique case,
COLIN POWELL if your life is not better.
COLIN POWELL We must keep moving forward.
COLIN POWELL Every one of these bombings sets us back, ... terror cannot be allowed to prevail, to win.
COLIN POWELL War is war and there will be casualties,
COLIN POWELL (Hussein) means us no good. He means the region no good, ... We always consider him to be a potentia...
COLIN POWELL There is a disenchantment with the institutions of elected government. In too many countries, people...
COLIN POWELL there are no arms deal with Iran so far.
COLIN POWELL Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
COLIN POWELL The Kashmir issue is essential to the relationship and can be resolved if all parties engage with a ...
COLIN POWELL The U.S. is taking action to meet environmental challenges, including global climate change, ... Sha...
COLIN POWELL wonderful opportunities and daunting challenges.
COLIN POWELL When we get reports back from Mr. Tenet and from Ambassador Burns and when we consult with a lot of ...
COLIN POWELL Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
COLIN POWELL No one has any evidence to the contrary, ... should not jump to such hasty conclusions.
COLIN POWELL We knew there would be days when our anxieties would well up and we would be afraid to take the next...
COLIN POWELL It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
COLIN POWELL Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision
COLIN POWELL First, we're going to cut it off, then we're going to kill it
COLIN POWELL I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
COLIN POWELL Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villains. I'm down to Castro and ...
COLIN POWELL All the options you can imagine are before us.
COLIN POWELL No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
COLIN POWELL You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
COLIN POWELL If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool
COLIN POWELL Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
COLIN POWELL We have had serious disagreement in recent months, ... I am not going to paper over it and pretend i...
COLIN POWELL Remain calm. Be kind.
COLIN POWELL If he feels it is that important an assertion to make, he ought to list some names,
COLIN POWELL I am pleased to hear that decrees have now been issued that should have been issued years and years ...
COLIN POWELL Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
COLIN POWELL What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they...
COLIN POWELL The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any time you tolerate...
COLIN POWELL The plan that is out there -- A, B and C -- is the Mitchell report, ... It calls for a cessation of ...
COLIN POWELL You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people. You will own all their hopes, aspirations ...
COLIN POWELL We will be with you in this current crisis and in the future,
COLIN POWELL We want that. But we can't do it in a hurried manner before the Iraqis are prepared to discharge tho...
COLIN POWELL Now, if the sources fell apart, then we need to find out how we've gotten ourselves in that position...
COLIN POWELL We know that there are occasions that arise when terrorists are coming in, and we know a bomb is hea...
COLIN POWELL there was reason for guarded optimism. And let us be clear about what brought it all to a halt -- te...
COLIN POWELL There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfe...
COLIN POWELL I for one am not going to apologize that somehow we took Saddam Hussein out and we're putting in a d...
COLIN POWELL It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my positi...
COLIN POWELL seeing some convergence of views.
COLIN POWELL Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
COLIN POWELL The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in ...
COLIN POWELL the level of a mammoth new campaign.
COLIN POWELL We wanted it to be a special program of the State Department. Randy worked for me.
COLIN POWELL Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earne...
COLIN POWELL