The best 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.

Success

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.

Peace Weapons

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.

Ambition

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.

George W. Bush - September 2001

2001 September 11th

The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia. The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq...- I mean of Ukraine.

George W. Bush - May 2022

Iraq

I have a different vision of leadership. A leader is someone who brings people together.

George W. Bush

Leaders

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

George W. Bush

USA Terrorism

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

George W. Bush

2001 September 11th

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

George W. Bush

USA Prisons

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

George W. Bush

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking".

George W. Bush

Texas

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

George W. Bush

Massachusetts

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man

Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3

New York City Manhatten

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 5

New York City

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Bill de Blasio

New York City

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Jordan Klepper in The Daily Show - Debates Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters in NYC

New York City

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

New York City

What do Marylanders call their ex-girlfriends?
Old Bay.

Maryland

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Maryland - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Maryland

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

Usher

Success

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

Christian McCaffrey

Success

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

Peace

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

Peace

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

Humanity Weapons Nuclear Weapons

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!

Albert Einstein

Weapons World War III Nuclear Weapons

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Nicole Scherzinger

Ambition Egoism

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is the best.

Tim Duncan

Ambition

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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