My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
COLIN POWELLMy own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
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None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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