Colin Luther Powell Quotes

• My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

   

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Compromise, Experience

  Tags in Listen, People

• I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Different, Marriage, Points

• I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Leader, Think

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

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Try, Until

• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Failure, Success

  Tags in Learn, Secret

• You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Going, See

• Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Great, Forward

• What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Seeing, Unhappy

• We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Government, Iraqi

• We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Could

• War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Resort, Understand

• Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Schools

• Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nuclear, Heart, Hope, Today, Will, Weapon

• The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Tags in International, Contributor

• The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, Security, Will

• The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‘Gee, isn’t that wonderful?’

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Finally, Wonderful, See

• The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in People, Competition

• The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wrong, Right

• The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Health, Life

  Tags in Action

• Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Seriously, People, Play

Colin Luther Powell (76)

Birth:	5th April, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Soldier

About

Colin Luther Powell was born in New York City, New York. He is an American politician and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position.  During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor. He received his BS degree in geology from the City College of New York in 1958 and was a self-admitted C average student. He was later able to earn a MBA degree from the George Washington University in 1971, after his second tour in Vietnam.

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