The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.


Robert Powell

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Write to Say something,
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In the end, rational policy is always good.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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But it's your life.
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COLIN POWELL
90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
COLIN POWELL
Get mad, then get over it.
COLIN POWELL
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
COLIN POWELL
To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
JOHN POWELL
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of...
ANTHONY POWELL
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
ANTHONY POWELL
But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean l...
COLIN POWELL
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came int...
ANTHONY POWELL
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
COLIN POWELL
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process i...
ANTHONY POWELL
Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take...
E.P. POWELL
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained fai...
ANTHONY POWELL
Communication works for those who work at it.
JOHN POWELL
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world t...
JOHN POWELL
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
COLIN POWELL
Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
COLIN POWELL
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories o...
COLIN POWELL
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
JOHN POWELL
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...
COLIN POWELL
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
COLIN POWELL
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that wou...
COLIN POWELL
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousan...
WILLIAM POWELL
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approac...
COLIN POWELL
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
COLIN POWELL
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...
COLIN POWELL
Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that ou...
JONATHAN POWELL
Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used...
LUCY POWELL
In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade e...
LUCY POWELL
The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, ...
COLIN POWELL
It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a p...
COLIN POWELL
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they ...
DAWN POWELL
I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winni...
COLIN POWELL
When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be ...
COLIN POWELL
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you&#...
COLIN POWELL
In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a no...
COLIN POWELL
If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity wit...
COLIN POWELL
Our smallest amount of miles in one day is 33 miles. And then, our largest is 105. I'm really scared...
BECKY POWELL
And I have this at my grasp, and I have to take advantage of it.
BECKY POWELL
And they were all excited and they were going to do it. But then, none of them did it. Just me doing...
BECKY POWELL
We really weren't that encouraged. Everybody had dead faces before the game.
BECKY POWELL
I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massi...
JONATHAN POWELL
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the...
COLIN POWELL
Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But y...
COLIN POWELL
In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the ...
LUCY POWELL
I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the w...
JONATHAN POWELL
You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda....
COLIN POWELL
Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and ...
LUCY POWELL
We're still in the crisis stage, ... Once we're past search and rescue and things calm down, we'll c...
ANN POWELL
I've just been overwhelmed by the outpouring of people who want to help our arts organizations and a...
ANN POWELL
The Coast is one of the shining stars in the crown of the arts in the state, ... It's devastating, e...
ANN POWELL