Quality Quotes

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Indira Gandhi

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.
Lewis Black

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow

If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If it's marketed right, you'll buy it. But...if it's real, you'll feel it.
Kid Rock

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
Willa Cather

Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud

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

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
Katharine Hepburn

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Mary Kay Ash

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
Whitney Houston

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noel Coward

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Elvis Presley

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.
River Phoenix

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
Howard Stern

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Miles Davis

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.
Mickey Mantle

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone Else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
Mickey Mantle

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
G. E. Moore

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
Larry Bird

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. Tolkien

I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy.
Alan Jackson

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.
Carrie Underwood

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
James Boswell

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.
Eric Clapton

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
Chinua Achebe

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Lydia M. Child

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.