Best 3008 quotes in «quality quotes» category

For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in a free market: (1) increased use of the product or service whose price is controlled, (2) Reduced supply of the same product or service, (3) quality deterioration, (4) black markets.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children.

Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others.

French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.

From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar to the parent, and some of them superior to the parent in the qualities we wish to possess... Sexual reproduction is the chef d'oeuvre, the master-piece of nature.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Generally speaking, I tend to think that whether a philosopher's views are true is a poor test of their quality. What matter are the arguments they give, and the insights those arguments inspire.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.

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

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

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.

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

Going to Morocco was massive; that's where I really found music which had the African syncopation and swing mixed with Arabic strains, and together they had this transporting, bittersweet quality.

God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

Good customers want good quality service. Great customers want it even more.

Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.

Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.

Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.

Google (and pretty much every other major search engine) uses hyperlinks to help determine reputation. Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and link-based analysis has greatly improved the quality of web search.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals.

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.

Greed is an integral quality of a strong player.

Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.

Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness.

Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.

Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.