Quotes about quality

1. Intelligence is more important than knowledge, quality is more important than intelligence, and awareness is more important than quality. ——Zhang Ruimin

2. True freedom belongs to those who earn their own living and make a difference in their work. ——Lord Collingwood

3. Among people who are generally depraved, freedom cannot exist for a long time. ——Burke

4. Courage is a quality. With courage, everything will be easier to handle. ——Barry

5. The essence of self-cultivation is like human character, which ultimately comes down to the issue of moral sentiment. ——(U.S.) Emerson

6. The cultivation of character is not for others, but to enhance one's own ability to live. ——(Japan) Daisaku Ikeda

7. The cultivation of the heart, the cultivation and training of the heart are preparations for the discovery and experience of beauty. ——Zong Baihua

8. If the body is not cultivated, the virtue will not be established. If the virtue is not established, there will be very few people who can turn it into the family. How about the world? ——Wu Zetian

9. If we don’t have freedom and tranquility in our own hearts, if our deepest and most hidden selves are nothing but a pool of sour and foul stagnant water, then what’s the point of striving for freedom outside of ourselves? What's the value? ——Souge

10. Human thoughts are plastic. If a person looks at the same good painting every day, reads a page from a certain masterpiece, or listens to a wonderful piece of music, he will become a cultured person - a new person. ——(UK) Ruskin

11. Piety is not an end, but a means, a means to achieve the highest cultivation through the purest tranquility of the soul. ——(Germany) Goethe