37 Quality Inspirational Quotes

In a world constantly buzzing with activity, it's all too easy to feel overwhelmed or uninspired. Every now and then, we all need a little nudge to lift our spirits and refocus our minds. That's where the magic of a well-crafted quote comes in. Handpicked from some of the most insightful minds, this curated collection of the top 37 quality inspirational quotes aims to reignite your passion, boost your motivation, and remind you of the boundless potential you possess. Whether you're seeking encouragement, wisdom, or a fresh perspective, these quotes serve as a gentle reminder that inspiration is just a few words away. Dive in and let these timeless gems brighten your day and propel you forward.

1. “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.” - Ray Bradbury

2. “International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.” - Alexander McCall Smith

3. “Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.” - Ambrose Bierce

4. “Die Kategorie der Qualität ist für die Masse zu fein; sie setzt sie um in die Kategorie der Quantität.” - Hans Delbruck

5. “The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.” - felix adler

6. “I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.” - Richard Buckminster Fuller

7. “Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?” - Gustave Flaubert

8. “As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food.” - Michael Pollan

9. “Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.” - Günter Grass

10. “It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.” - David Gilmour

11. “Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

12. “To have a man whose name is on the label showing such interest, commitment, and determination for the best is a wonderful thing. This is someone who will throw money at quality, who believes in being the best. Never knock it. Would you prefer to have a bean counter in corporate headquarters, someone who never comes near the brewery, making decisions solely on the basis of the bottom line and profit margins?” - Charles Bamforth

13. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” - Henry Ford

14. “Quality begins on the inside... then works its way out.” - Bob Moawad

15. “May, will you please, kindly DIG it," he remembered one of them saying, "and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions? If you got to ask what IS it all the time, you'll never get time to KNOW.” - Robert M. Pirsig

16. “The quality of beauty lies on how beholder values an object.” - Toba Beta

17. “Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” - Shannon L. Alder

18. “A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out.” - Jaron Lanier

19. “There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within the human mind, or you can believe we just don't understand what quality in a mind is yet, even though we might someday. Either of those opinions allows one to distinguish quantity and quality. In order to confuse quantity and quality, you have to reject both possibilities. The mere possibility of there being something ineffable about personhood is what drives many technologists to reject the notion of quality. They want to live in an airtight reality that resembles an idealized computer program, in which everything is understood and there are no fundamental mysteries. They recoil from even the hint of a potential zone of mystery or an unresolved seam in one's worldview. This desire for absolute order usually leads to tears in human affairs, so there is a historical reason to distrust it. Materialist extremists have long seemed determined to win a race with religious fanatics: Who can do the most damage to the most people?” - Jaron Lanier

20. “But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.” - Sarah Vowell

21. “...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.” - John D. MacDonald

22. “How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.” - Ashly Lorenzana

23. “Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".” - Sherman Alexie

24. “It is quality rather than quantity that matters.” - seneca

25. “Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.” - Edsger W. Dijkstra

26. “Love is a quality, not a quantity.” - Vanna Bonta

27. “Quality, relevant content can't be spotted by an algorithm. You can't subscribe to it. You need people - actual human beings - to create or curate it.” - Kristina Halvorson

28. “As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.” - Criss Jami

29. “Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.” - Robert M. Pirsig

30. “The quality of what you do determines the quality of your life.” - Steven Redhead

31. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.” - Steve Jobs

32. “Buy less, buy better, and really wear it.” - Michael Bastian

33. “Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.” - Peter Pronovost

34. “No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.” - Robert McKee

35. “For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.” - Criss Jami

36. “If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.” - Robert M. Pirsig

37. “Gallantry is gentleman's quality.” - Toba Beta