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

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Rick Pitino

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
Adlai E. Stevenson

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Emile Zola

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Charles Eames

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
Gary Larson

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

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

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc

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

Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.
Nicholas Sparks

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
Sophia Loren

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
Rob Zombie

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson

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

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Karl Von Clausewitz

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
Martin Buber

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner