Top 100 It Matters Not Quotes
#1. Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.
Malcolm Forbes
#2. My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.
Madeleine L'Engle
#3. The mercy of heaven is greater than you or your sins. Let your sadness be dispersed by its glorious beams. Do not let apathy prevent you from seizing the moment for repentance. It matters not how wickedness has flourished. Divine grace can flourish still more abundantly.
Christopher St John
#4. Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
Lucretius
#5. It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.
John Wooden
#6. I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes the way we think and live. Theology matters because if we get it wrong then our whole life will be wrong.
Joshua Harris
#7. In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.
Henry Ward Beecher
#8. The devils at once, it matters not. We must fight him all the same. He went to the hall door for his bag, and together we went up to Lucy's room.
Bram Stoker
#10. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
James Boswell
#11. As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
A. N. Wilson
#12. Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.
Ben Horowitz
#13. But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
Agnes Smedley
#14. It matters not whether these weapons of ours are humane: if they gain us our freedom, they are justified before our conscience and before our God.
Adolf Hitler
#15. Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.
Bram Stoker
#16. It matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands...the only applause we're meant to seek is that of nail-scarred hands.
B.J. Hoff
#17. When you spend your life doing what you love to do, you are nourishing your Soul. It matters not what you do, only that you love whatever you happen to do.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#18. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.
Thomas Paine
#19. It matters not if we fail, but I need you to at least try, because then you can forgive yourself. Regrets will keep you chasing demons for the rest of your life.
O.E. Boroni
#20. Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.
Wilfrid Laurier
#21. It matters not how we were brought up. What determines our way of acting is the manner in which we administrate our will. A man is the sum of all his wishes, which determine his way of living and dying.
Paulo Coelho
#22. It matters not to an empiricist from what quarter an hypothesis may come to him: he may have acquired it by fair means or by foul; passion may have whispered or accident suggested it; but if the total drift of thinking continues to confirm it, that is what he means by its being true.
William James
#23. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. I'm a great believer in the fact that as you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have, or what their nationality is, or where they came from. And I think that's how Americans really do relate to each other on a personal level.
Condoleezza Rice
#25. It matters not who you love, but only the quality of such a love ... a flower is no less beautiful because it does not bloom in the expected form. Because it lasts an hour, and note days.
Alexandra Bracken
#26. If in the place of God we write "Reality", "Nature", "Unknowable", or "Zero", it matters not one whit; the equation is just as obscure; for all we have done is to replace a by b, c, d, or e, not knowing what these letters mean. The symbol has changed, but what it symbolizes remains as inscrutable.
J. F. C. Fuller
#27. It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.
Alexis Soyer
#28. Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western theologians. The student of Sanskrit philosophy knows where the wind is blowing from, but it matters not whence the power comes so longs as it brings new life.
Swami Vivekananda
#29. Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always.
L.M. Fields
#30. My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.
A.P. Herbert
#31. The only government that I recognize
and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army
is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.
Henry David Thoreau
#32. But that isn't why. The why is that none of it matters. Not school, not cheerleading, not boyfriends or friends or parties or creative writing programs or ... " She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die.
Jennifer Niven
#33. It matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.
Rebecca West
#35. It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival.
Mark W. Boyer
#36. As Henry David Thoreau, one of the great explorers of his time, reminded himself in his journal, "It matters not where or how far you travel - the farther commonly the worse - but how much alive you are." Two
Pico Iyer
#37. Evil cannot be "treated"
nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.
Bill O'Reilly
#38. It matters not how it seems. All that matters is what is, and I will simply have to deal with whatever that happens to be.
Peter David
#39. Conduct your life in such a way that, when your train breaks down in the eve of your years, you have a warm, dry car driven by a loved one - or a hired one, it matters not - to take you home.
David Mitchell
#40. It matters not how slow you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
#41. You know, Sanger, Barnum may have said that it matters not what is said about you so long as it is said, but I am eloquent enough to knock that theory into a cocked hat should I be required to do so.
Val Andrews
#42. It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.
David Petersen
#43. It matters not what language a man speaks; he holds a pen, he holds a plow, he holds a gun in exactly the same manner. We are all children of our tools.
Eli Brown
#44. It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17.
Russell M. Nelson
#46. It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
J.K. Rowling
#47. It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes
You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.
Edgar A. Guest
#48. It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. It matters not, for she did not need her eyes to tell her who she was. She knew it by your love for her.
Kate Morton
#50. it matters not what we have been but this an always this: what we shall be.
Angelina Weld Grimke
#51. You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! Your
J.K. Rowling
#52. It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.
Solomon Ortiz
#53. It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
Publilius Syrus
#54. It matters not how you play the game, So long as you never lose.
Prescott Bush
#55. "All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.
Emma Goldman
#56. For it matters not, how much we own, the cars . . . the house . . . the cash. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.
Diane Mulcahy
#57. To one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes of men, morning is when I am awake and there is dawn in me.
Henry David Thoreau
#58. It matters not which partner is bringing negativity into conversations and exchanges. Toxicity has no place at all between people who have promised to love each other.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#59. This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.
Freya Stark
#60. It matters not what my brain knows, but what my heart feels.
Raneem Kayyali
#61. If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.
Terry Goodkind
#62. It matters not how great the pressure is, only where the pressure lies. As long as the pressure does not come between me and my Savior, but presses me to Him, then the greater the pressure, the greater my dependence upon Him.
Hudson Taylor
#63. We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
Angelina Grimke
#64. No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
Thomas Paine
#65. Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#66. It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.
Brother Lawrence
#67. Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#68. It matters not where or how far you travel,
the farther commonly the worse,
but how much alive you are.
Henry David Thoreau
#69. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
#70. Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.
Ann Wilson
#71. It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.
Sara Bonnett Stein
#73. There were worlds within worlds, and each will have within its confines values and meaning. It may not really matter to the world at large, thought Isabel, that I should feel happy rather than sad, but it matters to me, and the fact that it matters matters.
Alexander McCall Smith
#74. I've got to remember to ask her if she can tie a knot in a cherry with it, too. Not that it matters. I have no use for knotted cherries. But
Lauren Blakely
#75. What really matters is not the value someone else assigns to a task but how I personally feel while performing it.
Chris Hadfield
#76. It's not the place that matters, It's how good you are when you get there. -Rylann
Julie James
#77. It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters.
Carole King
#78. Here's what I've learned about "soon"; it's short for "someday." We make space in our lives for what matters, now. Not in promises and soons, but on mantels with sterling frames, in shelves we clear to make room for our now. Everything else i talk.
Stephanie Klein
#79. Don't discount this powerful use of appreciation. It is one of the great secrets of life. It's the feeling and emotion of appreciation that matters most, not the lip service.
D.S. Luca
#80. Color" is skin-deep and not soul-deep. Quit making it soul-deep. All souls are mine saith the Lord. As the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is His. What matters is that, the soul who sins is the one who will die (ref. Ez. 18:4)
Josephine Akhagbeme
#81. As far as it is your opinion it is not wrong, what matters is that it is your opinion.
Shrey Srivastava
#82. Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#83. Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?
Camille Pissarro
#84. It's not what you think about that matters in life, it's what you actually do about it.
Jane Green
#85. It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.
Johnny Miller
#86. It is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.
Aldous Huxley
#87. It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.
Sonia Rumzi
#88. Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.
Marissa Moss
#89. Imprinting on someone is like ... Like when you see her ... Everything changes. All of a sudden, its not gravity holding you to the planet. It's her ... Nothing else matters.
Stephenie Meyer
#90. In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.
Pericles
#91. What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that.
Robert M. Pirsig
#92. Now the skies could fall
Not even if my boss should call
The world it seems so very small
'Cause nothing even matters at all
Lauryn Hill
#93. It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
George R R Martin
#94. It does not matter
where you are born,
but what matters is the purpose
Of your life.
Debasish Mridha
#95. I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the drummer in Wilco or as a composer who composes primarily for rhythmic reasons - it doesn't matter to me as long as they dig the music. None of that matters to me if the music is crap.
Glenn Kotche
#96. It is not the length of life that matters. It's the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.
Matt Haig
#97. I used to say ... 'Don't sweat the small stuff
not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace.
Christina Applegate
#98. By the time he reaches the farm, he is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been the day before. He may not be certain what any of it means, but for now he does not think that it much matters.
Erin Morgenstern
#99. Every day in my consultancy, I meet men and women who are out of their minds. That is, they have not the slightest idea who they really are or what it is that matters to them. The question 'How shall I live?' is not one I can answer on prescription.
Jeanette Winterson
#100. You sure you want to come with me?" I said. "The odds are not good." "We're family," said Suzie. I had to smile. "I haven't been all that lucky when it comes to family." "We're the family you chose," said Dead Boy. "The family that matters.
Simon R. Green
