Black Quote by Colin Powell

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle…

— Colin Powell

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

— Colin Powell

Decision-making is lonely.

— Colin Powell

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and…

— Colin Powell

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring…

— Colin Powell

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

— Colin Powell

With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at…

— Colin Powell

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

— Colin Powell

There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them, success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty…

— Colin Powell

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

— Colin Powell

We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed…

— Colin Powell

One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile…

— Colin Powell