Quote by Colin Powell
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop

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. – Colin Powell

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The 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 Powell

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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. – Colin Powell

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

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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. – Theodore Roosevelt

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If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. – Charles Frazier

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Our attitude toward life determines lifes attitude towards us. – John N. Mitchell

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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. – Steve King

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. – Edgar Allan Poe

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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. – Blaise Pascal

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