I hope you find these Colin Powell Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- 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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu
Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
- Alexander the Great
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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