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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  2. The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. - J.r.r. Tolkien

  3. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. - David Nicholls

  4. If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person. - Haruki Murakami

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More Quotes By Colin Powell
  1. To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared...

  2. A joke is a very serious thing.

  3. This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

  4. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  5. For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

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