Quote by Colin Powell

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

Summary

This quote suggests that one cannot fully comprehend their own capabilities and potential until they dare to push the boundaries and take risks. It highlights the importance of exploration and experimentation in order to discover one's true abilities and resilience. By trying new things and stepping outside of their comfort zones, people may uncover hidden strengths and surpass their own expectations. This quote ultimately encourages individuals to seize opportunities and venture into the unknown, as that's where their true potential lies.

Topics

Leadership Management Inspirational

By Colin Powell

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. The

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

Christopher Parker

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, t

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

J. William Fulbright

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Cowardice/weakness

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all b

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

Adversity Tears Wind Us See Strong

Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tu

Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'.'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back

Harry Potter Ron Weasley Dumbledore

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able t

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say t

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his t

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

William Shakespeare

The United States brags about its political system, but the

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything t

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead, Process

There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fa

There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.