Quality Quotes

Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system

Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.

Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.

I married her just because she looks like you.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.

It's a great opportunity to lower costs without sacrificing quality. If a retailer is not leveraging this capability, they are certainly missing something.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

Certainly being governor is an important job, and there are quality governors that could serve our country as president and have done so in the past.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they?

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

I'm a big fan of cameras. I'm reasonably interested in good gadgets and I'm amazed by what things can do. The quality of the GoPros and what they can do is amazing.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.