Quotes by Colin Powell

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

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 concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

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

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.

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.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.