Top 100 Quality Of Quotes
#1. What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.
Douglas Southall Freeman
#2. Food availability is not really the issue. The quality of the food is what we recognize is the problem.
Catherine Bertini
#3. All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
James Russell Lowell
#4. The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
Bruce Lee
#5. It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.
George W. Bush
#6. Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you.
David Sedaris
#7. The last point that I'd make. I had a hearing. I had all of the veterans groups in front of me. And I said to them, tell me when a veteran gets in to the V.A., understanding there are waiting lines and real problems, when a veteran gets into the system, is the quality of care good?
Bernie Sanders
#8. Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
H.G.Wells
#9. A novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
Elizabeth Bowen
#10. When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#11. You can think of your body in two ways: 1. As mechanical, like an automobile worth only so many miles or 2. As a living breathing energetic vessel manifested from spirit. Either way will greatly effect the length and quality of your life. Choose wisely.
Gary Hopkins
#12. One needs great tenacity and a tremendous will to begin such an enterprise at all. And I should like to say this to you: If I had this faith, I had it only because I knew the people and because I had no doubts as to the quality of the German people.
Adolf Hitler
#13. Man (human life form) is a 'second-hand' quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self].
Dada Bhagwan
#14. We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.
James MacDonald
#15. If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.
Zig Ziglar
#16. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations ...
C. G. Jung
#17. For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
Alice Kahn
#18. It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.
Kevin Lowe
#19. It's our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives.
Derric Yuh Ndim
#20. We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.
W. Phillip Keller
#21. I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world
Antony Burgmans
#22. It didn't matter the quality of the writing - Callie's fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.
Sarah MacLean
#23. I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond
#24. What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#25. When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
Bruce Forsyth
#26. discriminate between the principles that improve the quality of prose and the superstitions, fetishes, shibboleths, and initiation ordeals that have been passed down in the traditions of usage. The
Steven Pinker
#27. The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.
Kevin Rose
#28. Freedom is not something we have, there is no such thing as freedom. Freedom is a quality of our personality: we are more or less free to resist pressure, more or less free to do what we want and to be ourselves. Freedom is always a question of increasing freedom one has, or decreasing it.
Erich Fromm
#29. The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.
Scott Pelley
#30. Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
M. Stanton Evans
#31. The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
#33. The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life.
Ralph Marston
#34. The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days.
Alexander Litvinenko
#35. Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#36. He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#37. The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.
Art Modell
#38. Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.
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Michael Perry
#39. All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put out. The consumer dollar has no interest in how much time it buys-only in the character and quality of the product itself.
Wheeler McMillen
#40. Talent is a by-product of education; the quality of a country's human capital depends on it.
Klaus Schwab
#41. The principles of Nonviolent Communication taught by Dr. Rosenberg are instrumental in creating an extraordinary and fulfilling quality of life. His compassionate and inspiring message cuts right to the heart of successful communication.
Tony Robbins
#42. There's a quality of legend about freaks.
Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Diane Arbus
#43. The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage
Gordon B. Hinckley
#44. We must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.
Richard M. Nixon
#45. Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.
Stephen Levine
#46. The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
Bill Nye
#47. It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!
Brian Tracy
#48. The transgressive quality of love is the transgressive quality of art ... From the Pre-Raphaelites till now, the avant-garde has always been characterized by radical views of love and sex.
Rod Dubey
#49. It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers
J.K. Rowling
#50. What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#51. I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
Valerie Jarrett
#52. Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.
Sunil Gavaskar
#53. When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
Robert Jackson
#54. God does not judge the condition or quality of His church by how good the meetings are on Sunday morning, but by how good the people are on Monday morning. The main calling of our life is more than just knowing the truth - it is having that truth become our life.
Rick Joyner
#55. I hear the carnations talking over the drone of white noise in the background. They're saying how painful it is to be snipped at the stems, complaining about the quality of the water they're swimming in, asking to be put back into the ground so they can die in peace.
A.G. Howard
#56. It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.
William Matthews
#57. If you are possessed of Fear, do not waste time trying to "kill out" Fear, but instead cultivate the quality of Courage, and the Fear will disappear.
Three Initiates
#58. Ringing the cash register is not the name of the game. It's only the scorekeeper, and it's not what motivates me. I'm motivated in my business by the compliments I receive about our people, our service, and the quality of our food.
S. Truett Cathy
#59. The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.
Wilferd Peterson
#60. The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.
Alexandra Paul
#61. I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.
John Philip Sousa
#62. It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#63. If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.
Benjamin Spock
#65. For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.
Donna Tartt
#66. We must realize that the real impact and consequence of each of our choices and actions - and even our thoughts - is monumental, because every single thought, choice, and action is determining who we are becoming, which will ultimately determine the quality of our lives.
Hal Elrod
#67. Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
Fidel Castro
#68. Decisiveness is the number one quality of a dynamic leader; his ability to communicate a decision with passion and integrity is an art form.
Farshad Asl
#69. The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
Bob Moawad
#70. God says there is a direct relationship between how I use my money and the quality of my spiritual life. How I manage my money ("worldly wealth") determines how much God can trust me with spiritual blessings ("true riches").
Rick Warren
#71. If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa.
Mo Ibrahim
#72. May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy
Ted Nugent
#73. It's not the span of time that matters. It's the quality of love you have in that time that counts. For some people a thousand years would never be enough.
Dan Skinner
#74. A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life.
Abhijit Naskar
#75. The quality of our thoughts and emotions impact our body more than the quality of the food which we eat.
Maddy Malhotra
#76. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.
Jennifer James
#77. The quality of our attention determines our experience.
Deepak Chopra
#78. In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
Stephen Covey
#79. The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Bohdi Sanders
#80. The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Tony Robbins
#82. Health and fitness are totally a choice for a better quality of life.
Chris Powell
#83. The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
Willa Cather
#84. In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.
Steven Burd
#85. Learning about new hot sauces is the least expensive way to improve my quality of life.
Mindy Kaling
#86. The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
OMI
#87. Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
Stephen R. Covey
#88. The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.
Daphne Oz
#90. Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.
Ma Ying-jeou
#91. We all know the place you're in has a big impact on how you feel. How you feel has an impact on the quality of work. Why wouldn't we put a lot of effort into making the place we work as efficient and productive and pleasant as possible?
Jesse Schell
#92. Unk had no way of judging the quality of the information contained in the letter. He accepted it all hungrily, uncritically. And, in accepting it, Unk gained an understanding of life that was identical with the writer's understanding of life. Unk wolfed down a philosophy.
Kurt Vonnegut
#93. Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#94. Indeed the study of the Easy as we know it today, if undertaken in a really direct way, would be of great assistance towards the understanding of all Antiquity, on account of that very quality of fixity and stability.
Rene Guenon
#95. Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
Ralph Fiennes
#96. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life
Norman Cousins
#98. I find the average quality of present parenting appallingly poor, I have every reason to believe it far superior to that of just a few generations back. A
M. Scott Peck
#99. Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.
Ben Bernanke
#100. My principle activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
