Quotes of General Colin Powell

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You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

- General Colin Powell

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“ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. ”

- Ron Ben Israel

“ 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

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav

“ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time. ”

- Godspower Oparaugo

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

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ It is easier to believe a lie than to claim parts of you that have been scattered and buried. Your willingness to search for what's been lost merely points to how immensely powerful you are. ”

- Kirstyn Lazur

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

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

- Plato

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Wendell Berry

“ Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. ”

- Nicholas Sparks

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome