Quotes of Colin Powell

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I found the information he gave me useful and he was always respectful of the guidance I gave him with respect to his actions.

- Colin Powell

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“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life each moment of time that makes life look bad! The same bad situation in life that makes one person think badly inspires another to do a noble thing! The same good situation in life that makes one person feel so good to get into a bad situation inspires another person to create another good situation because of the good situation. It is all about thoughts, choices and actions! Life is good! Live it well! ”

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross