Quotes of Colin Powell

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

- Colin Powell

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“ Changing a Habit is Never Difficult. Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it ”

- Vineet Raj Kapoor

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ Those who complain about being constrained in their job and life should ask themselves one simple question. Are you constrained by chains or in your own mind? ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ Some people are not capable of loving you the way you need to be loved It might be wise to just wish them well and take care of yourself. ”

- Charles E Hudson

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

- Harold Geneen

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Be Brave, Be Bold! Never allow fear to dictate your choices. Use your VOICE & trust in your abilities. ”

- Rosalie Bardo