It Matters Quotes

#1. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.

Alex Ebert

#2. Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.

Hal Elrod

#3. 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

#4. I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond.

Stanley A. McChrystal

#5. Our love is perfect. And even though we may not be, our love creates a bridge that spans over our imperfections and joins us where it matters.

Steve Maraboli

#6. It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.

Sara Bonnett Stein

#7. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.

Isaac Marion

#8. I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.

Richard Paul Evans

#9. But it's not enough to just "discover" the meaning of life. What really matters is whether we live according to our values, and that takes hard work and a hundred hard choices every day.

Greg M. Epstein

#10. In life we all go through things, but its how you come out of it that matters

Tonya Wilson

#11. When today's race is over, it's over. The only race that matters is the one coming up.

Harry Gant

#12. Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.

Deborah Moggach

#13. There are many photographs which are full of life but
which are confusing and difficult to remember.
It is the force of an image which matters.

Brassai

#14. Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

Carolyn Parkhurst

#16. Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things - and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#17. So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

Maurice Strong

#18. You cannot go to the cemetery and ask to be enlightened on matters of this kind, though it would ease my mind considerably if you could.

William Maxwell

#19. But I'm not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that's one of the reasons we enjoy it.

Anthony Horowitz

#20. No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.

Kelly Link

#21. At the end of day, what matters most to God, what moves His heart, isn't our fancy words and impressive possessions - it's the condition of our hearts.

Victoria Osteen

#22. You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#23. Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

Agyness Deyn

#24. It is the ultimate game-changer. If the resurrection is true, then everything has changed. As Jaroslav Pelikan once said, 'If Jesus Christ rose from the dead, nothing else matters. If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, nothing else matters.

David Robertson

#25. There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

Neil Young

#26. The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.

Jim Corbett

#27. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. At the end of the day it's not 'what looks good' that matters, it's 'what feels' good.

Maddy Malhotra

#29. It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options. How sad for a person to be missing out on some expression of identity, just for not knowing there are options

Kate Bornstein

#30. At a certain point, it's your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that matters.

Sheryl Sandberg

#31. I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

Erykah Badu

#32. It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?

Philippa Gregory

#33. It doesn't matter how long you're here for, or what accomplishments you have, it matters what you do with that time and the type of person that you are.

Joel T. McGrath

#34. The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

Megan McCafferty

#35. One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

David Simon

#36. It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

Tony Dungy

#37. Life is varied, colorful, and full of surprises. It is always good to remember that your existence matters, so better get moving and move forward with your life.

Kcat Yarza

#38. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

David Lagercrantz

#39. Some roads we travel in life can feel like the ones that might break us, but that's why God surrounds us with people who will cheer us on and wipe our tears and listen as we pour out our hearts. Because often, it's not what you say but what you do that really matters.

Melanie Shankle

#40. It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#41. But, I suppose without those evils there'd be no chance for us to do good, and doing good is what matters. Though it can be very frightening...

Peter Bunzl

#42. I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

Ethan Hawke

#43. It doesn't matter how much you make, what matters is what you become. Stay hungry.. Learn.. you'll become world-class

Azim Jamal

#44. Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.

Sherwood Anderson

#45. Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.

Virginia H. Pearce

#46. It is not where you begin, or what gifts you begin with, but what you do with them that matters in the end.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#47. I can tell you, Jay, nothing that happens in this life is worth killing yourself over. Time passes, and you can decide to change your future. You don't let what some assholes say or do, direct you. In this life, it only matters what you do with it.

Nicole Reed

#48. History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent history. It matters because if we can't we will never be able to face the present, guaranteeing that our future will be doomed.

Robert Jensen

#49. More important by far is that one be honest with oneself. I have always been, and it has cost me dearly. Nothing matters but the truth. I have dedicated my life to the pursuit of it, no matter where it hides. That is the heart of science, Will Henry, the true monster we pursue.

Rick Yancey

#50. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people.

Elizabeth Warren

#51. It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

Julian Schnabel

#52. Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#53. The experience of loss does not have to be the defining moment in our lives. Instead the defining moment can be our response to the loss. It is not what happens to us that matters so much as what happens in us.

Jerry Sittser

#54. It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.

Stella McCartney

#55. It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

Jim Butcher

#56. Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

Rory Stewart

#57. However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

Kenzaburo Oe

#58. It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.

Jan Kott

#59. It's not who you slept with that matters, but whom you fell in love with.

Lou Harper

#60. It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.

Robert Lacey

#61. As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you.

John Corey Whaley

#62. The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are best at.

Susan Ee

#63. A parcel
taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will
is all that I am. A vessel, for the bearing of sons, for one nobleman or another: it hardly matters who.

Philippa Gregory

#64. Welcome to the ring. Enter those who dare, and let them share the spoils. Only they have earned it. Will you win? The ring offers no promises. But one thing's for sure: unless you get in the ring today, you don't even stand a damn chance. Decide what really matters, and get in the ring for it - now.

Julien Smith

#65. Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters.

Sheryl Sandberg

#66. Time flies, whether you're wasting it or not.

Crystal Woods

#67. My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

Susan Rice

#68. It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy. It doesn't matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth.

Sara Gran

#69. 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

#70. I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

Tony Horwitz

#71. It is working with clients and changing that perception. I don't mind if market commentators have that view. It's the view that clients have that matters.

David Livingstone

#72. 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

#73. What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.

Joel Fuhrman

#74. London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

William Monahan

#75. As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

Miley Cyrus

#76. Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they 'have no talent for it.' Ridiculous. Talent has nothing to do with it. The only thing that matters is mental discipline.

Amby Burfoot

#77. What matters it, O breeze, If now has come the spring When I have lost them both The garden and my nest?

William Dalrymple

#78. Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot ... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

Tim Bevan

#79. When you're in front of a camera, it's not the words that count but the way they sound. It hardly matters what you say as long as you say it with a smile.

Marc Levy

#80. In such families as [Nidderdale's], when such results have been achieved, it is generally understood that matters shall be put right by an heiress. [ ... ] Rank squanders money; trade makes it;
and then trade purchases rank by re-gilding its splendour

Anthony Trollope

#81. On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

Mitt Romney

#82. No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters.

Christopher Healy

#83. Truth Matters "Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows." Pope Paul VI Italian Pope 1897-1978

C Snapp

#84. It is not the dying that matters, it is how the man lived.

Michael Jecks

#85. Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

Maya Banks

#86. So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important
our quarrels, or philosophical differences
in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.

Thrity Umrigar

#87. The thing that matters is meaning! It drives everything. Builders align their attention to the things that matter to them, and they know a lot about that stuff.

Jerry I. Porras

#88. It does not make any difference what a man say; what matters is how he feels, and not how he feels on one particular day but how he feels at all times.

Seneca.

#89. As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

Robert Fulghum

#90. There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you.

Nikki Rowe

#91. It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Joseph Addison

#92. It's lost time that matters - the time between time - the moments when you forget time and life just happens.

Chloe Thurlow

#93. It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Socrates

#94. The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn't given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#95. Mom said to me, "You can't control how things turn out. It's what's in your heart that matters most.

Curtis Moser

#96. As long as matters are really hopeful," wrote Chesterton, "hope is mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.

Eugene H. Peterson

#97. Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.

Pushpa Rana

#98. What really matters is not the value someone else assigns to a task but how I personally feel while performing it.

Chris Hadfield

#99. It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

Nelson Mandela

#100. It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh.

Zora Neale Hurston