Quality Quotes

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
E. O. Wilson

Good, Great, Character

Beauty is less important than quality.
Eugene Ormandy

Beauty, Important, Less

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana

Positive, War, Soldier

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre Maurois

Fitness, Important, Leader

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
Richard Rogers

Life, Great, Passion

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Moliere

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt

Another, Shining, Defect

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

Great, Respect, True

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

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.
Dorothy Height

Life, Strong, Important

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

Good, Fake, Meal

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

Social, Results, Concern

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

True, Laugh, Same

The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.
Rick Perry

Life, Enjoy, Reflection

What is the quality of your intent?
Thurgood Marshall

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
Yousef Munayyer

Leadership, Great, Respect

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.
Jim Henson

Children, Said, Around

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield

Patience, Business, Rather

Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
Ted Nugent

Life, Food, Give

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
Elie Wiesel

Words, Sometimes, Grace

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Lindbergh

Life, Future, Knowledge

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
James Allen

Courage, Mind, Greatest

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
Theodor Adorno

Work, Within, Decided

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
Theodor Adorno

Stupid, Actions, Calculated

Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
Ted Nugent

Life, May, Whatever

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
Jane Jacobs

Real, Order, Struggling

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
James Cash Penney

Leadership, Trust, Confidence

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
William Shatner

Great, Human, Story

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm

Claim, Confess, Defect

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann

Education, Best, Alone

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