Quality Quotes - Page 3

• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Quality Not Quantity, Quantity

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• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

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• Quality starts in the boardroom.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Management

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

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Confidence

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

  Mae West

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

  Juvenal

  Inspirational, Jewels, Shining

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• Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Leader

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• If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

  Henry Ford

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  Henry Ford (1926). “Today and tomorrow”

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Patience, Passion, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

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  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

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  People, Understanding, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.214

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• By the work one knows the workman.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Work, Army

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• The first quality that is needed is audacity.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Audacity, Firsts

  Dame Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill (1990). “Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Quality is always in style.

  Robert Genn

  Style

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• Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Gratitude, Looks, Appearance

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Design Process, Poor Quality

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• Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Knows, Defined

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, April 1, 1974.

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• The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

  Richard Rogers

  Way Forward, Environmental Quality, Earth Day

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• The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Please, Finished

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• 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.

  Victor Hugo

  Forgiveness, Giving, Sides

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• Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Details

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• Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Educational

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Work, Quality Not Quantity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Young India”

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