Quality Quotes

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson

Life, Pain, Character

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Important, Longevity

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs

Used, Excellence, Yardstick

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Good, Men, Alone

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle

Courage, Mind, Greatest

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Happiness, Nature

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee

Human, Honest, Child

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

Love, Success, Men

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

Courage, Human, Others

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green

Life, Work, Family

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Courage, Today

The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Winston Churchill

Needed, Audacity

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Success, Leadership, Integrity

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
Maya Angelou

Technology, Humanity, While

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Brain, Cannot

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi

Work, God, Please

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle

Courage, Human, Others

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi

Life, Person, Commitment

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington

Good, Alone, Yourself

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moment, Days, Number

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Difference, Pleasures, Amount

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Strong, Striving

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle

Men, Acting, Particular

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford

Best, Possible, Rule

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau

Highest, Arts, Affect

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill

Knowledge, Win, Purpose

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Epitaph, Rarest

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Sense, Makes

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato

Single, Moment, Else

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