50 Thought-Provoking Inspection Quotes

Martha Martins
Sep 29, 2023 By Martha Martins
Originally Published on Oct 17, 2022
It is always advised to sit and examine what we have achieved in our life. Here are some inspection quotes curated for you.
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Many people advise us to examine our lives and write about how we should do so.

Life, in general, is a conundrum, where we are always searching and researching for things we do not know or things we are yet to know about.

We need to sit back, relax, and look back on our lives from time to time in order to unravel the web of this conundrum. While we are reviewing our lives, we should consider questions like 'how,' 'why,' and 'when,' but we should not dwell on them for too long because they can lead to disillusionment.

Sometimes we need a push to discover who we are as well as inspiration and motivation. These can take on any form, including quotes like "inspection quotes," which can get us thinking and help us come up with the best solution.

So here are some of the best and warmly curated inspection quotes to read and get motivated.

Interesting Inspection Quotes

Interesting quotes on inspection of life, quality, home, and many other things.

"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."

- Tacitus.

"A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution."

—Nils Heribert-Nilsson.

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."

- Melody Beattie.

"A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection."

- Arthur Bloch.

"I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!"

- Sophia Bush.

"Helpful, Not Helpful Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information, and storing data."

- Carol Moseley Barun.

"Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from the improvement of the process."

—W. Edwards Deming.

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

- Henry David Thoreau.

"On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all."

- P. J. O'Rourke.

"It's not so much the number, it's the quality of the inspection that's important."

- Noel Cunnigham.

"Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state."

- William Golding.

"Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered."

~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

"Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection."

- Richard Russo.

Fascinating Inspection Quotes

Take a look at these quotes, and be fascinated to the point that you feel like introspecting too.

"Wasn't making any great connection/Wasn't falling for any intricate scheme/Nothing that would pass inspection/Just thinking of a series of dreams."

- Bob Dylan.

"Between stimulus and response is our greatest power –the freedom to choose."

- Anonymous.

"What comes easy won't last, what lasts won't come easy."

- Anonymous.

"As consumers, we can pressure corporations both to monitor and improve workplace conditions overseas - when inspections reveal violations, these companies should address the gaps immediately."

- Lee Hyeon-Seo.

"We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic."

- Carl E.

“It is not unusual to do an inspection and find something that needs correction.”

- Sharon Watson.

"Everyone has a different opinion; every country has a different way of doing things. But I do believe that we need a regulatory body so that everyone who owns or manages wildlife is subject to inspection and rated on how well they look after the animals and how the communities benefit."

- Xander Berkeley.

"Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected. "

-W. Edwards Deming.

"Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place."

- W. Edwards Deming.

"The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated."

— George Smoot.

"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."

- Jack Vance.

"It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise."

—Richard Dawkins.

"The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection."

-Paul Popenoe.

"There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being."

-Walter Raleigh.

Self Inspection Quotes

Here are some self-inspection quotes which will inspire you to look within.

(Self-care is crucial, but we should carefully consider our methods and how we go about it.)

"By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection."

—Frank Moore Colby.

"The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original."

—Karl Kraus.

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

~Albert Einstein.

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

~Peter Drucker.

"If you don't build your dreams, someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Anonymous.

"All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us."

-Jean de la Bruyere.

"Never apologize for having high standards, people who really want to be in your life will rise to meet them."

- Anonymous.

“Every action is an opportunity to improve.”

~Mark Graban.

“In every crisis, there is opportunity.”

~Chinese Proverb.

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.”

~Steve Jobs.

“Be passionate about solving the problem, not proving your solution.”

~Nathan Furr.

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

~Napoleon Hill.

More Inspection Quotes

Take a look at these inspection quotes on how your surroundings and material things affect you.

“A bad workman blames his tools.”

~Chinese Proverb.

"Don't downgrade your dream just to fit your reality, upgrade your conviction to match your destiny."

- Stuart Scott.

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

-Christopher Robin.

"A hill is just another opportunity to leave your competition behind."

- Anonymous.

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

— Ella Fitzgerald.

"Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting."

- Joyce Meyer.

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."

- George Horace Lorimer.

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."

- Ayn Rand.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

- Aung San Suu Kyi.

All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible.

- Kevin Allen.

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an “inspection regime” – recording, watching, gathering information, and storing data.

—Henry Giroux.

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Written by Martha Martins

Bachelor of Arts specializing in Linguistics

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Martha MartinsBachelor of Arts specializing in Linguistics

Martha is a full-time creative writer, content strategist, and aspiring screenwriter who communicates complex thoughts and ideas effectively. She has completed her Bachelor's in Linguistics from Nasarawa State University. As an enthusiast of public relations and communication, Martha is well-prepared to substantially impact your organization as your next content writer and strategist. Her dedication to her craft and commitment to delivering high-quality work enables her to create compelling content that resonates with audiences.

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