quality quotes

The quality, not the longevity, of one quote is what is important -- this is probably what Martin Luther King Jr. would have said if he took a look at our brilliant collection of quality quotes. Not to mention the brilliant alliteration here: quality quotes...


“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.”

— Plato

“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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit”

— Aristotle

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ”

— Aristotle

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ”

— Aristotle

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

— Aristotle

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“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”

— Bruce Lee

“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact”

— Honore de Balzac

“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart”

— Honore de Balzac

“People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.”

— Moliere

“The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”

— Aldous Huxley

“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“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

“Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there. ”

— Johnny Depp

“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. ”

— Bob Dylan

“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.”

— Maya Angelou

“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.”

— William James

“An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.”

— William James

“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

“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.”

— Barack Obama

“With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.”

— Barack Obama

“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.”

— Horace Mann