These quality quotes will inspire you. Quality, the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy and encouraging quality quotes, quality sayings, and quality proverbs.
Inspirational Quality Quotes
- “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” ~ Aristotle
- “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” ~ John Ruskin
- “You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.” ~ Karl Albrecht
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“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “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 means doing it right when no one is looking.” ~ Henry Ford
- “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” ~ Ray Kroc
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “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 is everyone’s responsibility.” ~ W. Edwards Deming
- “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.” ~ Martin Van Buren
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“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.” ~ Wyatt Earp
- “The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
- “When you’re out of quality, you’re out of business.” ~ Phil Crosby , Quality quotes for business
- “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” ~ Steve Jobs
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“Anything worth doing is worth doing well.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “Well done is better than well said.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “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
- “One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.” ~ Brian Tracy
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“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.” ~ Richard Rogers
- “Quality is always in style.” ~ Robert Genn
- “Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.” ~ Tom Peters
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“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.” ~ William James
- “If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.” ~ Emile Zola
- “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” ~ Aristotle
- “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 Drucker , Quality quotes for manufacturing
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“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.” ~ James Russell Lowell
- “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
- “Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.” ~ W. Edwards Deming
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“You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.” ~ William S. Burroughs
- “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
- “The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.” ~ Theodor Adorno , Quality quotes for work
- “By the work, one knows the workman.” ~ Jean de La Fontaine
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“The best is the cheapest.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “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
- “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” ~ Mark Twain
- “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Make the workmanship surpass the materials.” ~ Ovid
- “The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Quality has to be caused, not controlled.” ~ Phil Crosby
- “I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“Men are more important than tools. If you don’t believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.” ~ John Joseph Bernet
- “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
- “To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.” ~ Peter Drucker
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“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.” ~ Robert M. Pirsig
- “Quality, not quantity, is my measure.” ~ Douglas William Jerrold
- “Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.” ~ Henry Ford
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“One of the rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.” ~ Josh Billings
- “We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.” ~ W. Edwards Deming
- “The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” ~ Aristotle
- “Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” ~ Marabel Morgan
- “Success happens with a consistent increase in quality in your life” ~ Tony Robbins
- “You cannot inspect quality into the product; it is already there.” ~ W. Edwards Deming , Quality quotes for products
- “The difference between where you are today and where you’ll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you’ve read.” ~ Jim Rohn
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“Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.” ~ Doug Larson
- “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” ~ Sam Walton
- “What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.” ~ John Ruskin
Summary: The qualities of something are its distinguishing features, and those can be good or bad.
