Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
Eric Hoffer

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
Gerald R. Ford

Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
Erich Fromm

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Herman Melville

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman Melville

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.
Robert Mondavi

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

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William James

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. Wilson

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William S. Burroughs

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Charles Baudelaire