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One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.


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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