Life Counts Quotes

#1. Your life counts. That's the only fact you need to remember.

Marty Rubin

#2. Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

Roger Rosenblatt

#3. What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts.

Amy Carmichael

#4. Life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre

Susanna Tamaro

#5. That spot was taken," Kara sat up to look at them. Stylized, short, black hair with bangs. Piercing blue eyes. Proper posture. Lean. It was Oliver.

"I don't think a bag counts as a person," he smiled down at her.

Alexis Tiger

#6. Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

Vance Havner

#7. It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#8. Its never the miles of traveling that counts,its what you have done along the way

Narjit Singh

#9. I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.

Sophia Loren

#10. Every second counts. Live in this moment. This is life. This is what matters.

Claire Contreras

#11. It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#12. The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. The other day, I was talking to Barry in the car and I said, 'I'm so glad I'm me!'

Diane Von Furstenberg

#13. To find, you have to seek. If you have lost your life direction, you probably won't find it between drinks at the local bar. Give yourself a break some time and space to examine what counts for you.

Andrew Matthews

#14. Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

#15. The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

Ann Voskamp

#16. Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

Steve Backley

#17. On the canvas of life,
Every sweep of the brush matters,
Counts for something ...

Scott Hastie

#18. May the words come easy, the doubt be weak, and the coffee strong enough to eat through steel. (I don't drink coffee...but I understand most authors do, and they like it with a bit of fight in it.) Now, let us boot up, sit down, and accrue those daily page counts!

G. Allen Cook

#19. I wanted to show, as Tooly's life enfolds [in The Rise & Fall of Great Powers], how one's earliest stories condition how one encounters the world: what one expects of strangers, whether one counts on justice, whether one veers into cynicism or veers back again.

Tom Rachman

#20. It counts. Happiness is like the rainbows of life.

Terri Osburn

#21. I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.

Nathan Parsons

#22. In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Ihara Saikaku

#23. Only the moment counts. It determines life.

Franz Kafka

#24. It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between ... This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something
you just have to want to learn its rhythm.

David Baldacci

#25. It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Millard Fuller

#26. Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power ... Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#27. Don't despise your contributions to Humanity. Every little kind deed counts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. I have found that it's not so much how you start, but how you finish that counts." -Declan

Brittany L. Engels

#29. About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

Robert Fulghum

#30. Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.

Nikki Giovanni

#31. Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#32. There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.

Billy Graham

#33. As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

Shawn Johnson

#34. It is not the years that count; what counts is what you did in those years.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Can you dance?
Of course, I said, even though I can't really. I think enthusiasm counts for a lot in dancing and in life.

Susan Juby

#36. Be the good, kind, lovable person you want to see in the world. Every action counts and the more people who behave and act with love and caring the more the world becomes a better place. We can do this!

Deon Potgieter

#37. Whenever you heal any relationship,
your whole life improves -
and that counts for double with family.

Robert Holden

#38. Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Eloisa James

#39. Some things in life are just out of our control. It's what we do about them that counts.

Nora Roberts

#40. We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They count because we value every human life. The evidence is clear that healthy mothers and children are the bedrock of healthy and prosperous communities and nations.

Lee Jong-wook

#41. What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Nelson Mandela

#42. Karma means 'action'. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.

John Dolan

#43. After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little ... like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

Sarah Dessen

#44. Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life. If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short, and that everything we do counts.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#45. It is really not how much you can get out of life that matters; it is how much you can put into it that counts. What will you contribute to life today?

Bill Phillips

#46. Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.

Hillary Clinton

#47. These are challenges," Jack told her. "That's it. We are going to win. You know why? Because it doesn't matter if you're in a fairy tale or here in real life, doing the right thing still counts for something. We're going to win because we're good, decent people trying to accomplish something noble.

James Riley

#48. At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

Yehuda Berg

#49. The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us.

Ayn Rand

#50. It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

John Galsworthy

#51. If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,
counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will
give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

Lin Yutang

#52. It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

Betty White

#53. In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing

Dave Pelzer

#54. I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.

May Sarton

#55. I did, of course, on both counts, and started going out with the boy I lost my virginity to - all of it. He lost his to me too, except that neither of us felt we had lost anything - just discovered the meaning of life and love and everything else unnecessary in between.

Elly Varrenti

#56. Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

Robertson Davies

#57. Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

Michelle Huneven

#58. Shit happens to the best of us, Cara," Damian says suddenly. "It's how you deal with it that counts. You've gotta fight for what you want, otherwise this life will chew you the fuck up and spit you right out. You're either a fighter or a nobody,

Michelle Horst

#59. Not every day is a parade with fireworks, but every breath counts. Life is incredibly fucking hard, rarely fair, and always unpredictable. Most days, surviving is as good as it gets.

Jewel E. Ann

#60. We're here today, gone tomorrow and all we have in between are the little moments we can fill up with life, with love. It's not the big things we do, it's the energy we put into making special moments every day. That's what counts.

Jan Hambright

#61. Life goes on without regard to our whims. What we make of life is what counts, how we address the challenges in our lives determines our respective levels of personal accomplishment and happiness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#62. Life is full of Floppy Flips... You have to know when to Flip your Flop that counts!

Peggy Grigowski

#63. What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

Helen Keller

#64. It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Hugo Ball

#65. Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. For me, that counts tenfold in the world of music!

Jason Graves

#66. Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

L.M. Montgomery

#67. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Ray Bradbury

#68. She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

Sandra Bullock

#69. Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Denis Waitley

#70. Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily ...

Wilhelm Reich

#71. Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.

Marissa Moss

#72. Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.

Alexandre Dumas

#73. You may have gotten off to a rough start in life. You may have had more than your share of unfair things happen, but it's not how you start that counts. It's how you finish." ****

Don Pasco

#74. I can still love feeling so close to the sun and peaks of mountains, still love life at this altitude - it makes me feel like every breath counts.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#75. In life, we all have a second chance but it's what we do with those chances that counts.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#76. Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

Bruce Lee

#77. We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

Joseph Fort Newton

#78. I like to celebrate my life. I have a life that I'm really lucky to have, and so I want to make sure every minute counts and that I go on great vacations and I share my memories with people that I love and that will make me laugh and lalalalalala.

Chelsea Handler

#79. The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

Peter Block

#80. Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

Ralph Boston

#81. When we focus on people and life instead of material possessions and mere wants, there's not much room for emotional hand-wringing. Instead, there's more space to weigh what we value in our lives and to acknowledge what really counts. Chapter 9 Simplicity Laura Ingalls in The Long Winter

Erin Blakemore

#82. To maximize time is to make sure that every second, minute and hour counts

Sunday Adelaja

#83. But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#84. You were right to tell me that in life it is not the future which counts, but the past.

Patrick Modiano

#85. Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.

Barbara Burke

#86. Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic,
or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss,
then you must learn to control you ...
the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.

Jim Rohn

#87. In the end, it doesn't matter what words are said or unsaid ... Life's mistakes are made whether you can see them or not. What counts is how we learn to live with them.

Gail Tsukiyama

#88. Sometimes life gives you a second chance, or even two! Not always, but sometimes. It's what you do with those second chances that counts.

Dave Wilson

#89. In life it's not how you fall but how you get up that really counts! Don't let mistakes from your past haunt and hold you back ... always keep moving forward in your life

Timothy Pina

#90. Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.

Landon Donovan

#91. What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you" (102). - Tony Gonzalez, "The Giant Within

Denzel Washington

#92. Life is like a voyage with a beginning and an end. It's what happens between the two that counts." Captain Hank Bracker

Hank Bracker

#93. Every second counts

Dorothy Koomson

#94. Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

John Knowles

#95. In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

Hubert H. Humphrey

#96. In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#97. Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

Timothy Ferriss

#98. I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts.

Michael Ruse

#99. You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Brandi Chastain

#100. I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

Henry Ossawa Tanner