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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“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau

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

- St. Augustine

“ What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji

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

- Plato

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

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

- Veronica Roth

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

- Wendell Berry

“ If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ A dream comes true through repeated actions. ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ 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

“ The one that’s different often has the odds stacked against them but usually ends up with the biggest rewards so it’s always worth it. ”

- TorronLee Dewar

“ If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth