Colin Powell

• A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
• Always focus on the front windshield and not the rear view mirror.
• Always show more kindness than seems necessary because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
• Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
• Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
• Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
• Faults are yours to fix, not to curse.
• Get mad, then get over it.
• Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
• Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
• Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
• Have a vision. Be demanding.
• If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
• 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.
• It ain't where you start in life, it's where you end up, and what you did along the way.
• Leadership is solving problems
• None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
• Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.
• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
• Remain calm. Be kind.
• Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
• Trust is the glue that holds people together and is the lubricant that keeps an organization moving forward.