quality quotes

• Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. (Henry Ford) [quality/right]
• There is this quality in things, of the Right was seeming Wrong at first. To test our faith. (John Updike) [quality/right/faith]
• Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. () [charm/quality/more]
• The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. (Maya Angelou) [quality/combination/intelligence/education]
• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ( Aristotle) [men/quality]
• 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. (Henry Ward Beecher) [quality/bad/human/darkness]
• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. (Thomas Carlyle) [thing/face/quality/art]
• Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. (Dale Carnegie) [enthusiasm/horse/quality]
• The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. (Willa Cather) [quality/human]
• Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [patience/quality/business]
• Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [quality/people/people/fear]
• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. (Winston Churchill) [courage/human/quality]
• It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. (Marcus Cicero) [quality/fool/forget]
• Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. (Denis Diderot) [gaiety/quality/men/genius]
• Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation. (Benjamin Disraeli) [quality]
• 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. (George Eliot) [order/quality]
• It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident. (George Eliot) [fear/willpower/quality]
• The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [quality/imagination]
• Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/quality/men/rest]
• Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [talent/personality/quality/state]
• 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. (Henry Ford) [quality]
• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. (Mahatma Gandhi) [quality/willpower/god]
• 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. (John Gay) [quality/company]
• Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [courage/quality/color]
• One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect. (William Hazlitt) [quality]
• 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. (Napoleon Hill) [quality/knowledge/desire]
• Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. (Eric Hoffer) [more/quality]
• The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [pleasure/quality]
• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. (Aldous Leonard Huxley) [quality/behavior/human]
• If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique. (William James) [quality]
• 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) [quality/thing/thing/quality]

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