Quality quotes

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }The quality, not the longevity, of one quote is what is important -- this is probably what Martin Luther King Jr. would have said if he took a look at our brilliant collection of quality quotes. Not to mention the brilliant alliteration here: quality quotes...

“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.” William James

“An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.” 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

“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.” Barack Obama

“With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.” Barack Obama

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

“We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.” Michelle Obama

“If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.” Chuck Palahniuk

“I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.” Thomas Paine

“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.” Theodore Roosevelt

“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.” Tony Robbins

“In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.” Bill Gates

“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” John Rockefeller

“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” John Steinbeck

“Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.” Jonathan Swift

“Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.” Desmond Tutu

“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.” Virginia Woolf

“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.” Virginia Woolf

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

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

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” Marcus Aurelius

“To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.” Marcus Aurelius

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

“Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.” Ambrose Bierce

“Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.” Ambrose Bierce

“A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.” Stephen Covey

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” John Ruskin