The 24 powerful words from General Colin Powell
Sep 22
SOLID WORDS FROM COLIN POWELL
1. The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
2. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others it increases your mediocrity.
3. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.
4. As you grow, your associates will change.
5. Some of your friends will not want you to go on.
6. They will want you to stay where they are.
7. Friends that don’t help you climb will want you to crawl.
8. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream.
9. Those that don’t increase you will eventually decrease you.
Consider this:
10. Never receive counsel from unproductive people.
11. Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how.
12. Not everyone has a right to speak into your life.
13. You are certain to get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person.
14. Don’t follow anyone who’s not going anywhere.
15. With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it.
16. Be careful where you stop to inquire for direction along the road of life.
17. Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships.
18. If you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl. But, if you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights. .
19. “A Mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.”
20. The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you closely associate – for the good and the bad.
Note: Be not mistaken.
This is applicable to family as well as friends.
Yes… do love, appreciate and be thankful for your family, for they will always be your family no matter what.
Just know that they are human first and though they are family to you, they may be a friend to someone else and will fit somewhere in the criteria above
21. “In Prosperity Our Friends Know Us.
22. In Adversity We Know Our Friends.”
23. “Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them”.
24. “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
Wow Colin Powell is truly an inspiration for some people, he had a brilliant career, as a general and as a secretary
What the hell are you talking about Paulo, as far as I am concern this man sold us a war that should have not been fought, whether the intelligence lied to him or he was force by the Bush Administration, he will always been remembered as the person that sold the war to Irak at the UN
While it is true that Powell was associated with the Bush Admin, and he made one contemporary History’s biggest mistake and he should be criticized and blamed for that; I believe he sincerely is trying to redeem himself. He gave his full support to Obama, and he did part with his former evil partners, i.e. Condolezza and George W.
I think he is nevertheless very wise, and his intelligence can be commensurated with his achievements. Black man, secretary of state?! That seemed even crazier than a black president back when he took office. I think he should be alauded for his great success rather than forever stained with this fatal mistake, which some will argue, he was told to act in such a manner. Who are we to say that we wouldn’t have acted in teh same way as he did, if our career and other things were on the line?….
Colin Powell is influential person for 2009.He has the vision to help any person in this nation for the experience that he given to us as being not only a afro american but the father to his children.but this man is a cornerstone for this country so learn to appreciate our great leaders for we have lost too many good men for peolple thinking of them as being in the way of there negativity.My name is richard tiller and have served in the military and have had the opportunity to learn skills while in the army national guard so i thank you for taking the time to listen.