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

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

Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.
Rowan Atkinson

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
Rowan Atkinson

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

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
John McEnroe

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
Orison Swett Marden

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Orison Swett Marden

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

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

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