It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.
Colin PowellThe troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.
Colin PowellYou 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 PowellPeople get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people
Colin PowellThe 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 PowellEach of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?
Colin Powell