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

Quote by Colin Powell

Topics: Confidence Quotes, Leadership Quotes

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes,...

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes,...

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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

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

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in...

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in...

Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites...

Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites...

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody...

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody...

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've...

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've...

Get mad, then get over it.

Get mad, then get over it.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under...

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under...

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or...

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or...

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

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

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which...

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which...

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position...

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position...

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just...

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just...

The most precious things in speech are pauses

The most precious things in speech are pauses

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities