Quotessence
Home / Topics / Quality Quotes

Quality Quotes

Browse 6697 quotes about Quality.

Related topics

PeopleIfsThinkingMenWorldWayQuality Of LifeHumansKnowsWantMindImportantNeedsGivingShouldPersonsMayKindMeanCharacterWellsArtQuantityTryingFirstsDoeLooksHigh QualityBelieveFeelsGood QualityCertainSelfTwoCareValuesYearsChildrenLongRealMadeDifferentMatterHas BeensWritingStillsAbleLife IsLittlesUseProductsAbilityHeartWholeSeemsSpiritualIdeasLeaderSoulHelpingShowsMomentsFilmFormIndividualEssentialsHardFeelingsProblemTermInspirationalVirtueFactsStrongBookSpiritStatesReasonDependsGivenI CanOur LivesActionEnoughLevelsSaidSometimesTodayArtistCountryHighestJobsPlayEndsHuman BeingsResultsMovingBodyProcessLifemore

Quality Quotes

“We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common responsibility of us all. It is not fitting that those concerned with the various aspects of the human be alienated from each other. Both you and ourselves represent forces too profound and aim at objectives too significant for either of us to succeed completely without the assistance of the other. The urgency of our work impels us to get on with our common task lest a new period of disaster erupt over the Earth.”

FeelsHumansEarthLife IsForceCommunityCommonQualityResponsibilityPeriodsSucceedConcernedAspectTasksAimProfoundVariousDisasterSignificantObjectivesPreservesAssistanceQuality Of LifeFittingUrgencyHuman QualitiesNot Fitting
Author:Thomas Berry
Create image

“The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.”

HumansMadeEarthJoyGrowsQualityGrowing UpProductsDependsAchievementComputerCommitmentMachinesProfoundCurrentsSatisfactionMoodAweReverenceVentureEvoke
Book:The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
Create image

“Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word.”

HumansBodyHappensFormLinesQualityPiecesStrangePaperClothesFlowFunctionLipsWorthyRingsNosesHuman BodyStretchingTubesDecorationTangledPresent TimeFacialEnchantingDiskInfusion
Author:Robert Musil
Create image

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

FirstsHumansPhilosophyMotivationalFearLeadershipInspiringQualityLeaderCourageBraveryPhilosophicalGreekGuaranteesBe BravePositive LifeSelf EmpowermentHave CourageGuarantees ThatBe CourageousVeterans DayMoral CourageAncient GreekGreek PhilosopherFear And CourageFear CourageBravery And CourageHuman QualitiesInspirational CourageBravery And FearWords Of CourageConfidence And CourageLeadership CourageCourage And LeadershipGreek PhilosophyGreat QualitiesWar VictoryBrave SoldiersAnti ConservativeAdmirable QualitiesGreat ConservativePersonal Courage
Author:Aristotle
Create image

“This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.”

WorldHumansHas BeensIdeasPastOrderCultureCommunityQualityProgressThis WorldChangedReturnNotionNew WorldUnitsSociety And Culture
Book:Uncommon Sense
Create image

“It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.”

HumansWellsHas BeensSaidHuman BeingsSinAnimalQualityFiveElementsEatingDetermineVariousFleshCrueltyTendenciesDemonicWell SaidFive Elements
Author:Sathya Sai Baba
Create image

“A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.”

KnowsFeelsYearsHumansShowsLightSpeakWaitingSoundLossQualityStepsTreeHuman NatureFieldsColorPeriodsSpringTradeReportsMarchHorizonFormulasSolitarySacramentsNoonLawnsSlopes
Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
Create image

“The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most sensible and satisfying of all religions that mankind has conceived. This, like the others, comes from the best qualities of human nature, even if in this, as in the others, its adherents sometimes fail to carry out the principles in their lives.”

IfsHumansHas BeensCountrySometimesQualityPrinciplesDoubtFailingMankindHuman NatureTheoryIndiaSatisfyingSensibleOther CountriesReincarnationIncarnation
Author:Luther Burbank
Create image

“The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.”

HumansSoulWholeCharacterUseFormCertainEvilHuman BeingsQualityHeardStrongerOriginalsNotesScalesOccasionsToneGood And EvilAppearingRare Occasion
Author:Fanny Kemble
Create image

“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

ThinkingWorldHumansWellsCountryWholeFactsHumanityIndividualSpeakHuman BeingsQualityKnownEssenceSpreadConnectedWhole WorldOur CountryGenerosityIsolationBeing HumanUbuntuInterconnectednessYour Generosity
Author:Desmond Tutu
Create image

“Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.”

HumansDoeMatterPastResultsQualitySubjectsProductsEducationalAccomplishLiberatingHumaneSubject MatterHuman IntelligenceHumanistic
Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
Create image

“The variety of minds served the economy of nature in many ways. The Creator, who designed the human brain for activity, had insured the restlessness of all minds by enabling no single one to envisage all the qualities of the creation. Since no one by himself could aspire to a serene knowledge of the whole truth, all men had been drawn into an active, exploratory and cooperative attitude.”

MenWayMindHumansWholeBrainAttitudeQualityEconomyCreationActivityCreatorActiveVarietyAspireSereneRestlessnessHuman BrainEnablingCooperativesWhole Truth
Book:The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson
Create image

“The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.”

PeopleHumansMadeStillsProblemEarthAmericaLyingForceImaginationAnswersQualityProgressFieldsPrideEntrepreneurUniversityProsperityHardestFactoriesHuman HistoryLaboratoryDon't Lie
Author:Barack Obama
Create image

“Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.”

MenHumansHeartPersonsQualityRiskTestsFellowsAffectionCriticalLoyaltyCoreExperimentsPreservesMentalityPuzzlesFellow ManHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsInitiateGregariousness
Book:Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
Create image

“[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.”

ShouldHumansHomePerfectQualityLimitsShould HaveStriveImprovementMoodQuantityProvidingArrangementsUnlimitedFelicity
Book:Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature
Create image

“I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one's sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city.”

FeelsFirstsHumansImportantCountryWholeLightInspirationLastsMovingFormLinesCitiesQualityGreaterSeaLandFiguresLandscapeColourHorizontalFirsts And LastsMoving PartsHorizontal Lines
Author:Barbara Hepworth
Create image

“Christ has lifted woman to a new place in the world. And just in proportion as Christianity has sway, will she rise to a higher dignity in human life. What she has now, and what she shall have, of privilege and true honor, she owes to that gospel which took those qualities peculiarly and which had been counted weak and unworthy, and gave them a Divine glory in Christ.”

WorldHumansWomenChristQualityChristianityDivineHigherHonorGloryDignityWeakPrivilegeHuman LifeProportionUnworthyPlaces In The WorldNew Places
Book:Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration
Create image

“Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be. We are rare, unmatched, mysterious. This is why the quality of openness is so crucial to our self-discovery. We cannot know ourselves by who we think we are, who others take us to be, or what our driver's license may say. We are fields of potential, some now actualized, most not yet.”

ThinkingKnowsHumansKindMaySelfQualityFieldsIdentityDiscoverySelf DiscoveryMysteriousDriversOpennessCrucialLicenseFingerprintsOne Of A KindArticulation
Author:David Richo
Create image

“The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings.”

HumansHuman BeingsAnimalQualityMastersMoralityUniqueSpeciesBritishCleverHatedWickedDistinctionDedicatedElitesCan NotRulingOutlookHuman Species
Book:The Secrets Known Only To The Inner Elites
Create image

“What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even, it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.”

ThinkingMenHumansSeemsAbleQualityMoralPersonalityIntellectualGoldWingsAddDustCharmButterflyGrainAurasPeachesHuman PersonalityGold Dust
Author:Flora Thompson
Create image

“We [climbers] demonstrate in the most stunning way of all - at the risk of our lives - that there is no limit to the effort man can demand of himself. This quality is the basis of all human achievementit can never be proved enough. I consider that we climbers - that I - serve all humanity. We prove that there is no limit to what man can do.”

MenWayHumansEnoughHumanityCan DoEffortQualityOur LivesRiskDemandProveLimitsBasesStunningClimbers
Author:Walter Bonatti
Create image

“Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control.”

WayHumansIndividualNationsExistenceQualityLibertyMoralProduceJewCharacteristicsMaintainingInterventionEnglishmenEliminationUnwantedSterilization
Author:Francis Galton
Create image

“Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.”

KnowsHumansLooksHelpingQualityLeaderHonestWeaknessAuthenticityStrongestImperfectionGreat LeaderHuman Qualities
Author:Simon Sinek
Create image

“Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.”

HumansMayArtDifferentTogetherLawQualityLimitsOppositesDistanceBoundariesRationalFixedEnjoymentConsistentContradictionProvidenceGratificationPassing Away
Book:Life and Writings
Create image

“To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.”

HumansQualityEventsSweetAmountNeededPerfectionCharityProsperitySunshineModeratesJuiceCourtesyPeachesHuman QualitiesRipeningApricots
Book:Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household
Create image

“We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?”

MenHumansQualityPrinciplesFemaleComplexesGenderCharacteristicsFeminineAttributesMasculineMixturesHuman QualitiesMasculine And Feminine
Book:A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
Create image