Top 200 Quality Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius

52. “Peace is our gift to each other.”

— Elie Wiesel

53. “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

54. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

— Langston Hughes

55. “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”

— Buddha

56. “When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.”

— Brené Brown

57. “You can’t do kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results. You have to be in it for the long haul.”

— Masaaki Imai

58. “Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.”

— W. Edwards Deming

59. “Quality is pride of workmanship.”

— W. Edwards Deming

60. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

61. “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.”

— James Harrington

62. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

— Bruce Lee

63. “Everything you can imagine is real.”

— Pablo Picasso

64. “Always deliver more than expected.”

— Larry Page

65. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

66. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”

— Stephen Hawking

67. “The race for Quality has no finish line – so technically, it’s more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

— Peter F. Drucker

68. “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

69. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

— Jim Rohn

70. “Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.”

— Bill Gates

71. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

72. “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”

— C. JoyBell C.

73. “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

74. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

— William Shakespeare

75. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

76. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

— Lao Tzu

77. “Details matter; it’s worth waiting to get it right.”

— Steve Jobs

78. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

79. “Comparison is the thief of joy.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

80. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

81. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

— Warren Buffett

82. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

83. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

— Bob Marley

84. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

— Dolly Parton

85. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

— Winston Churchill

86. “You need to surround yourself with quality human beings that are intelligent and have a vision.”

— Vince McMahon

87. “Where there is love there is life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

88. “Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

— Les Brown

89. “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

— Warren Buffett

90. “If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.”

— William James

91. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

92. “To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.”

— Mark Frauenfelder

93. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

— Aristotle

94. “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

95. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

— Lao Tzu

96. “Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”

— Robin S. Sharma

97. “Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.”

— John C. Maxwell

98. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

— Eckhart Tolle

99. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

— Steve Martin

100. “Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

— Bruce Lee