Veterans Day Quotes by Colin Powell
- No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. Colin Powell
- Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or conclude you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell
- If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell
- Don’t let your ego get too close to your position so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it. Colin Powell
- Get mad, then get over it. Colin Powell
- Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. Colin Powell
- I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. Colin Powell
- The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above average effort. Colin Powell
- Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. Colin Powell
- You don’t know what you can get away with until you try. Colin Powell
- Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell
- Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked them. Colin Powell
- Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation. Colin Powell
- Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president? Colin Powell
- I don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. Colin Powell
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
- Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. Colin Powell
- Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. Colin Powell
- It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. Colin Powell
- Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so that when the tough times come, you can work together. Colin Powell
- Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah. Colin Powell
- Experts often possess more data than judgment. Colin Powell
- As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision. Colin Powell
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell
- The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world. Colin Powell
- Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. Colin Powell
- But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. Colin Powell
- A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. Colin Powell
- Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. Colin Powell
- The bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age. Colin Powell
- You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for political philosophy. Colin Powell
- It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflecting this anger back into, ‘How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?’ Colin Powell
- The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter. Colin Powell
- Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission. Colin Powell
- You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it. Colin Powell
- Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind? Colin Powell
- I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history. Colin Powell
- I try to be the same person I was yesterday. Colin Powell
- Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Colin Powell
- If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed. Colin Powell
- Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign. Colin Powell