Quotes
Quotes about Quality
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.".
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [Lat., Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum.]
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. â¢Charlotte Bronte A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. â¢Bernard Meltzer True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. â¢George Washington Friends are born, not made. â¢Henry Adams Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. â¢Anonymous Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. â¢Aristotle A friend loveth at all times. â¢Bible, Proverbs 17:17 Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. â¢Charles Caleb Colton A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to have a friend is to be one. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. â¢Euripides It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. â¢F Scott Fitzgerald We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. â¢François Duc de La Rochefoucauld God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. â¢Ethel Watts Mumford Love demands infinitely less than friendship. â¢George Jean Nathan Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. â¢Friedrich Nietzsche Hold a true friend with both your hands. â¢Nigerian Proverb Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. â¢William Shakespeare The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. â¢Logan Pearsall Smith A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. â¢Henry David Thoreau Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. â¢Bible, John 15:13 The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. â¢Mark Twain Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. â¢Voltaire Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. â¢Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. â¢Virginia Woolf Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. â¢Solon Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. â¢Lavater Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. â¢C. S. Lewis If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends let others excel you. â¢Colton Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet. â¢John Seldon There's not so much danger in a known foe than in a suspected friend. â¢Nabb To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. â¢Syrus True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. â¢Charles Caleb Colton We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. â¢Evelyn Waugh Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. â¢Lavater Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. â¢Samuel Butler A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson, If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. â¢Blaise Pascal I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. â¢Plutarch There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer. â¢Francis Bacon Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. â¢George Macdonald A friend is, as it were, a second self. â¢Cicero Friendship is Love without his wings! â¢Byron To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. â¢Cicero Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. â¢Shakespeare That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. â¢Quarles He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. â¢Joubert Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. â¢Richter Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. â¢Nathaniel Hawthorne The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. â¢Buddha Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. â¢Seneca The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. â¢The Hitopadesa Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. â¢La Fontaine The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. â¢Moliere One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. â¢Henry Brook Adams A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. â¢Lord Samuel While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. â¢Anonymous Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. â¢Kehlog Albran The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. â¢Henry David Thoreau There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. â¢Buddha The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. â¢Abraham Lincoln If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he soon will find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. â¢Samuel Johnson You should never second-guess the motives of your true friends. You don't even have to analyze their actions because you know, at bottom, that whatever they do or say or think flows in some fundamental way from the fact that they love you. â¢Star Jones True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. â¢Theophrastus True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. â¢George Washington But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. â¢Thomas Jefferson True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.
If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.
The quality of your life is the quality of your communication. (with yourself as well as with others).
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
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.
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.
What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart. -Doc Childre.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!
