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

Quote by Colin Powell

Topics: Amazing Life Quotes, Learning Quotes

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.

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around...

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around...

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

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...

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day...

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Get mad, then get over it.

Get mad, then get over it.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when...

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when...

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...

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...

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,...

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have...

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have...

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,...

The president's military advisers felt that the size of the force was adequate, they may...

The president's military advisers felt that the size of the force was adequate, they may...

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart...

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart...

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will...

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will...

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt,...

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt,...

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...