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

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

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.
Lawrence Halprin

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot

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

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

What is the quality of your intent?
Thurgood Marshall

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

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

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.
John Naisbitt

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Joseph Conrad

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
Bell Hooks

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
Alvin Ailey

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
Gottfried Leibniz