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

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

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Robert M. Pirsig

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 Lane Allen

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
Irving Babbitt

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

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

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

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Denis Diderot

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

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

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.
Puff Daddy

We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.
John Abizaid

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
Albert Bandura

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

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