70+ Best Quality Quotes for a Life of Excellence

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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. ~ William James

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~W. Edwards Deming

.there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who damn well do it, for their own sake

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other is a matter of time. – Marabel Morgan

Quality Quotes

Simplicity is the building block to achieve high quality.― Pearl Zhu

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity. ~ Emile Zola

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures. — Tom Peters

People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it ~Howard Newton

Let us look at the things we don’t see, let us listen to the echo of the sound behind the clamor and discern the crackling in the brushwood of our emotions, so we may recognize the tokens of the heartbeats we might miss and value the quality and the bite of our life story. (“This is no chicken feed”)

That which we persist in doing becomes easier – not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work. – Alvin Ailey

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different outcomes. – Einstein

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

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. — Henry Ford

Total quality management is a journey, not a destination. (Berry)

When we feel related to our environment we can develop and improve the quality of our involvement, since connectedness and concern are remedies against ignorance and envy. (“I only needed a light )

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, and brave by performing brave actions. ― Aristotle

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. – Steve Jobs

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric. – Phil Crosby

Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. ~ Peter

The quality of life is more important than life itself. — Alexis Carrel

Quality is not what happens when what you do matches your intentions. It is what happens when what you do matches your customers’ expectations. (Guaspari)

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

Quality needs to be constantly improved, but it is just as necessary to make sure that quality never deteriorates. – Shigeru Mizuno

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. – Isabel Allende

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience is all the passion of great hearts. ~ James Russell Lowell

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life, is what is important. — Martin Luther King

The ideas of control and improvement are often confused with one another. That is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.” (Ishihara)

When we crave the touch and the feel of an unfeigned world, we must not waver and put our quest on the back burner, but scratch anxiously the shining shell of a fair-weather world, find out how to discover real values; and foster a candid quality of our desire (“Absence of Desire” )

There is no such thing as a perfect method. Methods always can be improved upon. – Walter Daiber

Quality begins on the inside… then works its way out. ~Bob Moawad

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don’t spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won’t get higher student outcomes. – Andreas Schleicher

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

Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. – Daphne du Maurier

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. ~ Tony Robbins

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions. — Andre Godin

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. ~Steve Jobs

Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves

If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. – Chinese Proverb

Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth – on the quality and the character of it – and where it ought to go. We don’t have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland. – James Howard Kunstler

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. ~ W. Edwards Deming

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. — Thomas A. Edison

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. – Steve Brown

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don’t simply absorb information – we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.

A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support. – Kate Middleton

You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. ~ William S. Burroughs

Always do things right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the prevalent medical conditions and reduce the level of human suffering. – Ralph Merkle

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. ~ Brian Tracy

Quality is everyone’s responsibility. – W. Edwards Deming

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce’s knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with. – Janet Yellen

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. ~ Theodor Adorno

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. – Tony Robbins

In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty, and introduce more sustainability. – Bertrand Piccard

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~ Mark Twain

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand. ~ Miguel Ferrer

Eventually, everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. – Charles Eames

No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity. – Alex Honnold

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. – Elie Wiesel

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

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest claims men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. ~ Peter Drucker

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. – Anthony Robbins

In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game-changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps. – Queen Rania of Jordan

Quality is a direct experience independent of and before intellectual abstractions. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

For me, it’s not about price. It’s about necessity, quality, and usefulness. Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. It’s 99 cents and always has been. I started using it when I was in high school, and it’s great. – Fergie

Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have. ~ Paulo Coelho

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. — William A. Foster

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes. – Vivienne Westwood

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing right the first time. — Unknown

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

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

One of the rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. ~ Josh Billings

To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential. – Bruce Lee

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

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