My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

The only shame is to have none.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Power is competence.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

I’m not very articulate.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.