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Colin Powell

Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Opportunity Optimistic Yourself
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience.
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Deal Experience Failure Learning Life Yourself
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
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Earn Follow Leadership Mandatory Respect
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Care Element Important Leadership Oneself
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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Count Days Yourself
I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.
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Capability Intention Myself Presentation Regret Weapon Wrong
Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Decision Fact Goodness Stand Way
I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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Difficult Encouragement Myself Policy
It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.
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Enemy Kill Thinking Yourself
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Focus Future Mirror Review
If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn’t prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
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Decision Execution Faith Ideas Oneself Person Trust

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