Quality Quotes

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

~ Ray Kroc

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

~ William James

Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

~ Douglas Brinkley

The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.

~ Kellyanne Conway

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

~ Rahm Emanuel

Evangelicals overwhelmingly voted for Ronald Reagan - not because he was the most religious candidate, but he possessed the quality evangelicals felt like was most important, and that is leadership.

~ Robert Jeffress

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

~ Samuel Richardson

Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

~ Fred Wilson

In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.

~ Steven Burd

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

~ Ralph Merkle

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

~ Bill Nelson

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

~ Lincoln Chafee

Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.

~ Sendhil Mullainathan

I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine.

~ Anthony Fauci

The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

~ Vikram Patel

I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.

~ Karen Finerman

These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform.

~ Sheldon Whitehouse

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

~ Aristotle

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

~ Winston Churchill

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

~ Alanis Morissette

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

~ Dorothea Lange

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

~ Edward Gibbon

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

~ Nick Clooney

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.

~ Kate Middleton

We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

~ Valerie Jarrett

When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending the wage gap, we will help ensure that every child can achieve his or her God-given potential.

~ Kirsten Gillibrand

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

~ Michelle Obama

Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.

~ Lucy Powell

Supported by digital data, new data-driven tools, and payment policies that reward improving the quality and value of care, doctors, hospitals, patients, and entrepreneurs across the nation are demonstrating that smarter, better, more accessible, and more proactive care is the best way to improve quality and control health care costs.

~ Todd Park

Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.

~ Vikram Patel

Health is correlated with quality of life. If you get regular physical activity, have social connections, control your cholesterol, keep your blood pressure at a normal level, don't smoke - these things can make an enormous difference not only in how long you live, but how much you enjoy your life in those years.

~ Tom Frieden

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

There are fewer people living in tents, more people with access to quality health care, more kids who are in school, and for the first time in a long, long time, Haiti is attracting private sector investments.

~ Cheryl Mills

Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health... you have to increase the quality of what you eat, not just reduce the quantity.

~ Joel Fuhrman

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.

~ Muhammad Yunus

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

~ Noah Baumbach

President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.

~ Bev Perdue

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

~ Vladimir Putin

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

~ Paul Ryan