Top 100 Only Thing That Matters Quotes
#1. The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are best at.
Susan Ee
#2. 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
#3. The only thing that matters is us. I don't want to hide us anymore. Veronica, I want you. I want all of you. All the time, every day, until the end. I want to tell the world just how much you mean to me because you are my world.
Karina Halle
#4. There is no darkness in this place that we're bound
Love is the only thing that matters
Dan Fogelberg
#5. Happiness is the only thing that matters in this life. Don't be cavalier about it. Fertilize it with attention and watch it grow.
D.S. Luca
#6. The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
Richard Bach
#7. It," I said fiercely. I grabbed his face in my hands and waited until he opened his eyes. "You and me. That's the only thing that matters. The only thing you're allowed to think about now. Do you hear me?
Stephenie Meyer
#8. Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.
Joe Meno
#9. Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.
James Surowiecki
#10. You almost had me forget why I came here. It doesn't matter who you are, brother. The only thing that matters is what you've done.
Ben Ireland
#11. learn pretty damn fast that everything else is smoke and mirrors. Fame. Money. Success. You realize that life is fleeting and family's what it's all about. It's the only thing that matters.
Brenda Novak
#12. It's like he's seeing the only thing that matters. I am sickly familiar with the way he looks at Olivia, because it is the way I look at him.
Tarryn Fisher
#13. If something can be proven to work, we should try it ... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.
Nicola Sturgeon
#14. The only thing that matters is the theater!
Lily Rabe
#15. Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.
Claire Cross
#16. I don't know what it is that makes someone love you, but whatever it is, it's the only thing that matters, and if it is not there you won't create it by kindness, or generosity, or anything of that sort.
W. Somerset Maugham
#17. Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything;
I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me ...
Toni Braxton
#18. The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.
Rajneesh
#19. I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself. [ ... ] The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.
Ashley Judd
#20. There's not much to be said for sightseeing. You go somewhere that has a waterfall. You have a beer, watch the water go over the edge, and move on. Tours are all the same. In the end, the only thing that matters is the beer.
Jack McDevitt
#21. Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.
E. E. Cummings
#22. Here's what I think. I think that a lot of days, for me recently, it's like every split second the whole universe is created and destroyed. It's like constantly collapsing and reforming. And I think a lot of people feel that. I think that love is the answer and that's the only thing that matters.
Andrew VanWyngarden
#23. It doesn't matter who you were or what you've done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now.
Shelly Crane
#24. Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.
Meg Cabot
#25. Because to me the only thing that matters is the conceptions in my own mind, there has to be no reality anyway to what I suppose is going on (p. 153)
Jack Kerouac
#27. It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from 'SNL.' I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfect amount of time. The only thing that matters is what you do with yourself in that moment after. If you decide, 'I'm the girl who was fired from 'SNL,' you're just that.
Michaela Watkins
#28. The end comes, no matter what. The only thing that matters is, how do you want to go out, on your feet or on your knees?
Richard Jenkins
#29. What I like about Americans is if it's good music, that's the only thing that matters.
Chet Faker
#30. Yes. You're the only thing that matters right now." Michael, swaying a little over me, said, "You're trying to talk yourself into hating me when all I'm trying to do is keep you alive.
Nenia Campbell
#32. His lips hovered near my ear as he sang to me in that beautiful gravel of a voice, In my arms I hold the only thing that matters ... in my arms I hold the entire world ... in my arms is my heart and soul.
Cassandra Giovanni
#33. The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
Muhammad Ali
#34. It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.
Josh Radnor
#35. Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.
Lee Trevino
#36. The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now
this very instant.
Deepak Chopra
#37. The only thing that matters is what we do with now. What we do with what's left of us after the pain rips us apart. It's what's left of us that matters. What's left of us.
Richard Farrell
#38. I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last rereading (just now), I realize that time isn't the only thing that matters, time isn't the only source of terror. Pleasure can be terrifying too, and so can courage.
Roberto Bolano
#39. A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. He has to be a child. The only thing that matters is that he shouldn't become 'stuck' in childishness.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#40. In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
Olivia Wilde
#41. It is not important how successful you are, the only thing that matters is how good a person you are...
Vedang Sati
#42. The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.
Dana Spiotta
#43. That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.
Arthur Japin
#44. Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
Delmore Schwartz
#45. A truly radical resolution would be to embrace existence just as it is, as the only thing that matters, to proclaim that the world itself is heaven, made for our total enjoyment and fulfillment ...
CrimethInc.
#46. I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is.
Carrie Fisher
#47. How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
Leo Durocher
#48. The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.
Erich Fromm
#49. You're the thing that matters to me, Todd. Out of this whole planet, you're the only thing that matters.
Patrick Ness
#50. F#%k all the firsts, Sky. The only thing that matters to me with you are the forevers.
Colleen Hoover
#51. I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only thing that matters is if it is honest. If [the picture] is honest, you and everybody can tell. If it is dishonest, you and everybody can tell.
Arnold Newman
#52. They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.
Austin Mahone
#53. A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. The only thing that matters is that he should't become 'stuck' in childishness
Andrei Tarkovsky
#54. The only thing that matters is everything.
David Hieatt
#55. If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead ... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.
Katharine Hepburn
#56. Who do people say the Son of Man is? ... But what about you? Who do you say I am?' (Mt 16:13,15). In the end, people's answer to this question will be the only thing that matters; it alone will determine people's eternal destiny.
Andreas J. Kostenberger
#57. You are mine. You are always going to be mine. It doesn't matter what came before, the only thing that matters is what is now and going forward. There will never be anyone else for you. Only me. Me.
Thea Harrison
#58. God knows the truth in all of this, and at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters. Jesus was persecuted, and I'm going to get persecuted, ya know?
Heidi Montag
#59. Never forget those first five minutes, when you thought how much you loved each other was the only thing that mattered. Because in truth it is the only thing that matters. That love is what gets you through all the other stuff.
Lisa Unger
#60. Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying - and you have to keep trying - eventually you will come across the next item on your list.
Jonathan Nolan
#61. Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.
D.J. MacHale
#62. Maybe the only thing that matters is to make our lives last as long as we do. You know, to make a life last until it ends, to make all the parts come out even, like when you rub the last piece of bread in the last drop of oil on your plate and eat it with the last sip of wine in your glass.
Marlena De Blasi
#63. It's the way he looks at you like you're the only thing that matters to him.
Steph Nuss
#64. The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver
#65. The only thing that matters is when the team wins.
Jorge Posada
#66. Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
Jeffrey Fry
#67. There is somebody who loves me," said Despereaux. "And I love her and that is the only thing that matters to me.
Kate DiCamillo
#68. Annie taught me that orphanages were a blast and being rich is the only thing that matters. Grease taught me being in a gang is nonstop fun and you need to dress sexier to have any chance of keeping a guy interested.
Amy Poehler
#69. I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.
Jorge Posada
#70. Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.
Stephen King
#71. I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
Sally Field
#72. in the best organizations, the short term is not the only thing that matters. What matters more is being best. And that's a long-term concept.
Tom DeMarco
#73. The only thing that matters to me with you is the forevers.
Colleen Hoover
#74. I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham
#75. DONOVAN: Crying ain't a problem, kid. Only thing that matters is what happens after you're done crying.
Bijou Hunter
#76. But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that.
David Baldacci
#77. You're my person and I think that I was just waiting for you. Man or woman, it doesn't matter to me. The only thing that matters is that you are mine and I am yours.
Lily Morton
#78. Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.
Mark McCormack
#79. I don't give a shit how many guys you hook up with as long as you use a condom. What I care about is whether you said yes. That's the only thing that matters.
Daisy Whitney
#80. The only thing that matters in this game is the score, something hackers never quite understand, even when they think they do. If you can't make a shot eighty percent of the time and there's a penalty if you don't, you shouldn't try it. Ever. No matter where you are.
James Patterson
#82. Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."
Vince Gill
#83. When you're older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won't die any quicker, but you'll be less than the dirt on our boots. You'll still be dust, but you'll have wasted your short time in the light.
Conn Iggulden
#84. I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role. Every single role is important.
Bill O'Brien
#86. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.
Tom Hanks
#87. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.
Anthony Burgess
#88. As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.
Rajneesh
#89. because I know I would do the best job. Maybe the only thing that's important to you is money, but that matters the least to me. Leaders care about the common good, not the self-interest of one selfish man.
E.L. Todd
#90. The thing we found out was, when you get to a Super Bowl, both teams are treated the same, talked about in glowing terms. But when the game is over, only the team that won matters.
Don Shula
#91. Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior
C.S. Lewis
#92. In many situations, the only thing you can control is your own response. Changing self-talk from negative to positive is an excellent way to manage that response. Anger destroys your health and relationships.
Maddy Malhotra
#93. It doesn't matter what you think, what you believe or what you feel the only thing that ultimately matters is what you do.
Na
#94. Deeper, true I. When I know myself as that, whatever happens in my life is no longer of absolute but only of relative importance. I honor it, but it loses its absolute seriousness, its heaviness. The only thing that ultimately matters is this: Can I sense my essential
Eckhart Tolle
#95. It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.
David Shore
#96. The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.
Vladimir Nabokov
#97. Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world
an assigned parking space.
Gene Perret
#98. All that matters is I love you, and the thought of you safe is the only thing keeping me going
Amie Kaufman
#99. I don't really know how accepted I am. Nothing ever matters to me apart from the people with negative opinions. That's literally it. That always drives me on to the next thing. It's funny, you just focus on them and then the next movie. That's the only thing you're thinking about when it comes out.
Robert Pattinson
#100. There is only one thing that matters in art-to express one's individuality.
Marty Rubin
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