The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Quantity Over Quality Quotes
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them. — Michelle Obama
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. — Henry Hazlitt
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? — Brian Ferneyhough
Simply be the qualities you seek in others.
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. — Irving Babbitt
You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember — Alexandra Adornetto
A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces. — Christian Siriano
Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity. — Sayings
Leader Quality Quotes
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. — Warren G. Bennis
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. — Jim Rohn
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. — John Updike
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening. — Jocko Willink
The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage. — Frances Hesselbein
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. — Rudy Giuliani
Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. — George S. Patton
Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. — Sheryl Sandberg
The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose. — Mary Parker Follett
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are. — Jaggi Vasudev
The quality of our food is just as important as the quantity. — Steven Gundry
I remember being in India one time where I saw people who were struggling to find food at the bottom of a trash can, and then I walked into my hotel and saw people arguing over how the quality of food at the buffet wasn't good enough. — Jay Shetty
The invention of agriculture caused the human food supply to increase in quantity and deteriorate in quality, but food industrialization multiplied this effect. — Daniel Lieberman
It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it. — Alexis Soyer
The quality of food matters as much as the quantity. — Steven Gundry
Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality food and drink, and clearly other Scottish sectors, such as dairy, can benefit from that, too. — Nicola Sturgeon
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health. — Hippocrates
The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude — Satish Kumar
Life Quality Quotes
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
It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life. — Benjamin E. Mays
God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character. — Joni Eareckson Tada
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. — Tom Landry
Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop. — Dorothy Height
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity. — William S. Burroughs
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. — Che Guevara
Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life — Mata Amritanandamayi
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life. — Martin Seligman
Quality Of Life Quotes
The number of those who do selfless public service and those who serve without expecting any return, should increase. Their sterling qualities should show the way to the people at large. Their life would be a model to show how man should conduct himself in public life. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life. — Gregory of Nyssa
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness. — Eunice Kennedy Shriver
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. — Tony Robbins
Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life. — Robert. L. Ehrlich
Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life. — Bob Ehrlich
The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people. — Alexander Haig
Quality Work Quotes
Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand. — Angela Merici
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance. — J. R. D. Tata
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. — Peter Drucker
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. — Steve Jobs
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck
For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source. — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable. — Rick Rubin
The work has that iconic quality. His appeal is real. — Yusaku Maezawa
With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. — Carlos Slim
Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training. — Benjamin Millepied
Inspiring Quality Quotes
Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security. — Kathryn Kuhlman
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully. — John A. Lejeune
Success is based upon a spiritual quality, a power to inspire others. — Vince Lombardi
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory. — Aldo Gucci
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. — William C. Menninger
Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey. — Jennifer James
"The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart." — Dalai Lama
There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let yourself be inspired and even changed by the unique qualities of the place where you're building. We always try to take the second approach. — Rem Koolhaas
You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Stanley
In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you. — Warren Buffett
Quality Time Quotes
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. — Sun Tzu
Dear Lord, forgive me for all of the times I've compared myself to others. I know that You have hand-picked all of my qualities. Help me to see these things as beautiful reminders of Your great love in creating me as Your daughter. In Jesus' Name, Amen. — Lysa TerKeurst
Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places. — Alessandro Del Piero
Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing. — Mansur Al-Hallaj
The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time. — Steve McCurry
Calm, quiet, dark evenings, and consistent bed and wake times are critical factors for high-quality sleep. — Mark Sisson
Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you. — Brandy Norwood
I am not too much into Netflix and Amazon because spending quality time with family is more valuable. — Smriti Mandhana
Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls. — Rachel Roy
Seeing the Earth for the first time in orbit, you will be surprised that you never noticed the quality and texture of colors. — Peggy Whitson
Quality Improvement Quotes
The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. — Shigeo Shingo
Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity. — W. Edwards Deming
Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process. — W. Edwards Deming
The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable. — Kaoru Ishikawa
Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally. — Francis Galton
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. — Stephen Covey
Don’t hope for better. Just be better. Be something better. Be more compassionate, more resilient, more humble, more disciplined. — Mark Manson
I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in music, and I labour many years on the improvement of its quality in my compositions. — Sergei Prokofiev
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
Actions that soften life's quality should be identified, irrespective of whether they meet the classic addiction definition, aiming to help people improve. — Gary Brecka
Quality Education Quotes
I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion — Kurt Hahn
Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. — Kerry Washington
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so. — Christine Gregoire
You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye. — Konosuke Matsushita
But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day. — James Joyce
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security. — Ruben Hinojosa
Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation. — Patty Murray
Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future. — Blanche Lincoln
One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education. — Barack Obama
As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy. — Chris Van Hollen
Quality Care Quotes
We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford. — Richard M. Nixon
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
I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care. — Nicola Sturgeon
All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care. — Christopher Dodd
My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether it's with the merchandise, if you don't have real quality people taking care of your customers. — James Sinegal
Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs. — Mel Carnahan
The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures. — Charles W. Pickering
Listen carefully, be transparent, be responsive, be authentic, tell great stories-the qualities that would make you the hotshot at a party-and they'll make your organization a likeable one on social networks. — Dave Kerpen
Take MediCal and Medicaid patients. All people have a right to quality care and they will teach you as much or more as your insurance and cash patients do. — Steven Gundry
High Quality Quotes
Assessing sustainability risks requires that investors have access to consistent, high-quality, and material public information. — Larry Fink
Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success. — Jack Canfield
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. — Yehudi Menuhin
Make sleep your number 1 life priority. It may seem counter-intuitive at first. Once you achieve reliably high quality sleep, you'll wonder how you ever did life before in such a stupor. — Bryan Johnson
High quality assets, risky, low quality assets, safe — Howard Marks
High standards protect you from low-quality experiences. — Andrew Tate
When you see a journalist writing articles to impress other journalists or a restaurant owner trying to impress other foodies and restaurant owners, it’s usually not practical or high-quality. — Naval Ravikant
In order to be able to sell a product at a relatively high price, you have to offer the craftsmanship and quality that goes along with it. — Bernard Arnault
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. — Charles De Gaulle
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. — Giorgos Seferis
Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. — Bhagavad Gita
If you put the product into the customer’s hands, it will speak for itself if it’s something of quality. — Estee Lauder
GDP statistics evolved during the Industrial Age and do not seem to be keeping up with the digital age. Thanks to productivity, real GDP growth probably is higher and inflation lower than reported, suggesting that the quality of earnings has increased significantly. — Cathie Wood
Money is a vehicle to do bigger videos and make better content. — MrBeast
The problem in Europe is that we have a selective distribution system that allows the products to be sold in shops that follow a level of quality. And that’s very expensive to build… — Bernard Arnault
In order to be able to sell a product at a relatively high price, you have to offer the craftsmanship and quality. — Bernard Arnault
It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce. — Jared Kushner
Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle. — Ralph Lauren
All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and vandalization of factors of production, and the inferior quality of products and services. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Quality Service Quotes
True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty. — Fielding H. Yost
When you're out of quality, you're out of business. — Phil Crosby
Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game. — Tony Alessandra
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends. — Walt Disney
I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man to rise above himself, and to choose the option of quality rather than material superfluity. — Freeman Tilden
If you do it first class and you don't compromise values, and you don't compromise quality, and you don't compromise service, and you don't compromise cleanliness, then everybody else who is the competitor has got to play catch-up. — Ray Kroc
We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other? — Max De Pree
Ringing the cash register is not the name of the game. It's only the scorekeeper, and it's not what motivates me. I'm motivated in my business by the compliments I receive about our people, our service, and the quality of our food. — S. Truett Cathy
Quality Management Quotes
It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below. — Joseph M. Juran
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct. — Daniel Kahneman
...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions. — Joseph M. Juran
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. — Giovanni Boccaccio
When you don't know what you're doing, fake it. — Jill Shalvis
The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area. — Brian Tracy
We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it. — Phil Crosby
Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was. — Phil Crosby
If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness. — Lee Iacocca
In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it. — Maurice White
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — James Allen
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. — Ellen G. White
Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world. — Barack Obama
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal. — Jan Morris
Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor. — Joseph Pilates
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change. — Robert Kennedy
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be. — Albert Camus
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