Having received wings, a person acquired the qualities not of an angel, but of Satan.
“Our primary frontier of risk management isn’t wide diversification, but the quality of the individual businesses, their balance sheets, and the people who run them.”
— Chuck Akre
“Humility is an enormously important quality. You can’t win without it. Survival in the end is where the winners are by definition, and survival begins with humility.”
— Peter Bernstein
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
—Henry Ford
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
—Plato
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
—George Washington
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
—Marcus Aurelius
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities, infused by the Spirit into the soul, which are the principles of all holy actions.
—John Flavel
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
—Seneca
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
—Aristotle
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
—Charlie Chaplin
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
—Charles Darwin
God pervades time and every moment of time with his eternity; he maintains a definite relation to time, entering into it with his eternity. Between eternity and time there is a distinction not only in quantity and degree but also in quality and essence.
—Herman Bavinck
We never love a person, but only qualities.
—Blaise Pascal
He who listens attentively, questions rationally, answers calmly and stops talking when he has nothing more to say is in command of the qualities that are most needed in life. Johann Lavater
—Leo Tolstoy
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
—Sun Tzu