Quality Quotes - Page 70

Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully.

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.

And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.

The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are supreme and are served by the elite of the most talented men.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.