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Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city. (Quote by - Lawrence Halprin)

One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality. (Quote by - Gale Harold)

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential. (Quote by - Audrey Hepburn)

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)

Such a nice man - that was the defining quality of him, a genuinely nice man. And he had no real ego. (Quote by - Ken Bruce)

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. (Quote by - Tom Peters)

Progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. (Quote by - Alex Campbell)

His agent contacted us to say he was disappointed with the quality of some of the players at Birmingham City, we're in for a scrap this year and we don't need that. (Quote by - Steve Bruce)

The mere fact of an undiscovered restaurant, in a city where gourmands travel in ravening packs, creates an excitement unrelated to the quality of the cuisine. (Quote by - Lawrence Van Gelder)

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. (Quote by - Renata Adler)

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand. (Quote by - Miguel Ferrer)

Quality is a proud and soaring thing. (Quote by - Jessica Julian)

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us. (Quote by - Bell Hooks)

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology (Quote by - Bernard Malamud)

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. (Quote by - Albert Bandura)

It is a fact that each song an artist creates is unique and although fans tend to be loyal, ultimately the quality of the record will decide how it sells. (Quote by - Greg Ginn)

Quality is not an act, it is a habit. (Quote by - Aristotle)

I've been a little bit surprised with the quality of my game last week. (Quote by - Justine Henin-Hardenne)

We are still good enough. We have definitely got the quality. (Quote by - Wayne Rooney)

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls. (Quote by - Mervyn Peake)

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

We are delighted - a lot of hard work has paid off. (Quote by - Sebastian Coe)

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. (Quote by - William James)

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. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)

He's very lucky. He's tall and very good looking, with a fabulous smile. He's charming and has eyes that are a little bit curious: always looking for something new and interesting. It's a great quality. (Quote by - Mario Testino)

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

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. (Quote by - Robert M. Pirsig)

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace. (Quote by - Jerry Garcia)

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. (Quote by - Theodor Adorno)

Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work. (Quote by - Nicholas Sparks)

Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. (Quote by - Dwight David Eisenhower)

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. (Quote by - Bruce Lee)

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

Quality has to be caused, not controlled. (Quote by - Philip Crosby)

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care. (Quote by - Christopher Dodd)

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. (Quote by - Steve Jobs)

Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. (Quote by - Peter F. Drucker)

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there. (Quote by - Johnny Depp)

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. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)

Quality isn't something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn't put there, the finest sales talk in the world won't act as a substitute. (Quote by - C. G. Campbell)

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. (Quote by - Horace Mann)

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him. (Quote by - Jeff Foxworthy)

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

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 evry part of your life. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. (Quote by - William James)

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything (Quote by - John D Rockeller)

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. (Quote by - Gucci Family Slogan)

Popularity is not an indication of quality. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)

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. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with 'compelling' reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordionlike quality. (Quote by - William O Douglas)

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. (Quote by - David Hume)

Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right. (Quote by - Hillary Clinton)

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. (Quote by - Gottfried Leibniz)

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

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass (Quote by - Walter Pater)

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. (Quote by - German Proverb)

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)

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. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten! (Quote by - Leon M. Cautillo)

It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. (Quote by - Henry Ford)

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. (Quote by - Doug Larson)

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. (Quote by - William Glasser)

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. (Quote by - J Michael Straczynski)

An award does not change the quality of a book. (Quote by - Charles Van Allsburg)

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

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. (Quote by - Charles Lindbergh)

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. (Quote by - Herman Melville)

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. (Quote by - Martin Buber)

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. (Quote by - W. Edwards Deming)

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? (Quote by - Herman Melville)

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action. (Quote by - Andre Godin)

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. (Quote by - Juvenal)

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. (Quote by - Charles Eames)

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing. (Quote by - William Glasser)

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality. (Quote by - Don Marquis)

It's your body and you're going to have a much better life, you are going to have a quality life, better lifestyle, you're going to be healthier, you're going to be happier, you're going to enjoy the people around you and they're going to enjoy you more. (Quote by - Mike Ditka)

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being. (Quote by - Dale Turner)

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)

The first quality that is needed is audacity. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

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. (Quote by - Rowan Atkinson)

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt. (Quote by - E. O. Wilson)

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. (Quote by - George Washington)

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. (Quote by - Karl Von Clausewitz)

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. (Quote by - George Santayana)

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it. (Quote by - Don King)

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership. (Quote by - James Cash Penney)

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything. (Quote by - Moliere)

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out. (Quote by - Bob Moawad)

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life. (Quote by - Chris Evert)

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience. (Quote by - Sonia Johnson)

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition. (Quote by - William Shatner)

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)

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. (Quote by - Rowan Atkinson)

Modesty is my best quality. (Quote by - Jack Benny)

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives (Quote by - William A Foster)

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself... And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit. (Quote by - Tom Wolfe)

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It's 14 years since I left the club and that first-half performance was the worst I've seen since. It was devoid of quality, devoid of ideas, and worst of all, devoid of fight. (Quote by - Alan Hansen)

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others. (Quote by - Joseph Chamberlain)

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

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money. (Quote by - William Baldwin)

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. (Quote by - John McEnroe)

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. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)

The emerald light coming from within is refracted and dispersed according to the consistency of the impurities that gave it its quality. (Quote by - Thomas D'Evelyn)

What is the quality of your intent? (Quote by - Thurgood Marshall)

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. (Quote by - James Thurber)

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

Now he is playing very well again, he has got one yellow card in an England shirt and he is coming up to 50 caps, which is just incredible and shows you his quality. (Quote by - Sven Goran Eriksson)

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up. (Quote by - Dwight David Eisenhower)

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care. (Quote by - Nancy Johnson)

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. (Quote by - Gerald Ford)

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. (Quote by - Plato)

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. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it. (Quote by - Gary Larson)

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

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. (Quote by - Alvin Ailey)

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help. (Quote by - William Glasser)

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)

Nothing endures but personal qualities. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. (Quote by - Henri-Frederic Amiel)

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. (Quote by - Neil Kinnock)

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. (Quote by - George S. Patton)

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man. (Quote by - Robert Bridges)

I think we played rather well... For a friendly I thought it was good quality. (Quote by - Sven Goran Eriksson)

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. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)

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. (Quote by - Jane Jacobs)

I see the booing as a nice bit of banter and at least it means the fans aren't bored. It's quality. I enjoy it to be honest and I'm getting it even more than Robbie Savage, which is really saying something. (Quote by - David Bentley)

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles. (Quote by - R H Tawney)

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. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)

By the work one knows the workmen. (Quote by - Jean De La Fontaine)

It is, I think, good evidence of life after death. (Quote by - Donald Soper)

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

We have a quality team. (Quote by - Andy Robinson)

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)

When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make. (Quote by - Alberto Ricardo Carvalho)

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. (Quote by - Charles Eames)

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. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie. (Quote by - Rob Zombie)

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. (Quote by - George Eliot)

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. (Quote by - Ray Kroc)

Quality is everyone's responsibility. (Quote by - W. Edwards Deming)

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. (Quote by - John Updike)

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. (Quote by - John Gay)

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett)

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. (Quote by - James Allen)

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. (Quote by - John W. Gardner)

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. (Quote by - William James)

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. (Quote by - John Abizaid)

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. (Quote by - Rick Pitino)

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)

I don't agree that there's an over-abundance of a lack of quality. (Quote by - Brad Friedel)

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

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. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity. (Quote by - Emile Zola)

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. (Quote by - Henry Ford)

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. (Quote by - Willa Cather)

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. (Quote by - George MacDonald)

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

It was a very bad night. We were very disappointed with the quality of our performance. But there is enough time for crying. I could cry - maybe it would be easier - but life goes on. (Quote by - Arsene Wenger)

The chancellor has a Macavity quality. He is not there when there is dirty work to be done. (Quote by - Lord Turnbull)

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)

The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things. (Quote by - Martha Gellhorn)

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure. (Quote by - Lee Trevino)

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work. (Quote by - Sylvia Ashton-Warner)

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. (Quote by - Stephen Covey)

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy (Quote by - Montaigne)

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company. (Quote by - George Washington)