Quotes About Counts

#1. In his greediness, he counts all that he has clutched as nothing in comparison with what is beyond his grasp, and loses all pleasure in his actual possessions by longing after what he has not, yet covets.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#2. 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

#3. It's not getting to the wall that counts; it's what you do after you hit it.

Darren Hardy

#4. I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.

Niall Horan

#5. What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

Crystal Waters

#7. It's not what you know; it's not even who you know; it's what you implement that counts.

Brian P. Moran

#8. I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

Joan Rivers

#9. One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.

Meher Baba

#10. What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.

Friedrich Von Logau

#11. Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Cesare Pavese

#12. Turning your heart's desires into actions is what counts most.

Steven Redhead

#13. We live in a world where action is what counts.

Melinda McGraw

#14. We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

Mother Teresa

#15. What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little string dolls. I talk to roaches. I'm in jail for nine counts of murder, and I didn't do it. I'm in solitary confinement, may I add.

Charles Manson

#16. The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Fulton J. Sheen

#17. Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

Samuel Chadwick

#18. If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

John Aubrey

#19. So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Dr. Seuss

#20. I'm going to fight for you. I'll bring down the Counts, and Chloe, and every Sector in the universe that gets in my way without think twice. I'm not interested in what the future has planned. I want to share everything with you, Skyla. I'm in love with you.

Addison Moore

#21. The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.

Richard Dawkins

#22. Hope doesn't mean anything ... Action's the only thing that counts.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#23. They can go about collecting every material thing of worldly value, but they're missing everything that truly counts. When you've got nothing else, family means everything to you.

Megan Thomason

#24. It's not the critic who counts.

Theodore Roosevelt

#25. May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts.

Thomas S. Monson

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

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#27. I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

George Gershwin

#28. There's so much fear running our lives that we forget to be human when it really counts.

Rodney Yee

#29. The more you progress, the more you learn. I try to pay attention to ticket counts, draws, guarantees and bonuses. I look at my deals closely these days and try to come up with other projects and ideas, since this business [comedy] is about creating content.

Hannibal Buress

#30. The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.

Terry Pratchett

#31. 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

#32. Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

Francois Lelord

#33. You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird ... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing
that's what counts.

Richard Feynman

#34. Love is all that counts in this crazy, mixed-up world ...

Sophie Kinsella

#35. Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

Thomas Aquinas

#36. It does not matter how far we have gone in the wrong direction, it does not matter how many golden opportunities we have allowed to slip by us; what counts now is that we have woken up from our deep slumber and with this awakening comes our next line of action.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#37. Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

Harry Truman

#38. People can't help what they feel. It's what they do that counts

Siri Hustvedt

#39. It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.

Judith McNaught

#40. It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

L. Frank Baum

#41. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Earl Weaver

#42. Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#43. Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

Ernie J Zelinski

#44. With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

David Levithan

#45. 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

#46. We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

May Sarton

#47. Because what matters, what counts, isn't how well you are loved, but how able you are to give love.

Richard House

#48. There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

Pete Seeger

#49. The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

Nick Earls

#50. What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

John Wooden

#51. The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

Umberto Eco

#52. Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Pat Buckley

#53. It's what you do that counts, not what you consider doing.

Ann Aguirre

#54. 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

#55. It's what inside that counts, she reasoned defiantly. Love conquers all: even mismatched outfits and saggy jumpers.

Eleanor Prescott

#56. My findings have demonstrated that an optimal micronutrient intake reduces the desire for calories and reduces body temperature and white blood cell counts.

Joel Fuhrman

#57. 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

#58. Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#59. It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

Corrie Ten Boom

#60. Bit by bit, putting it together ...
Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art.
Every moment makes a contribution,
Every little detail plays a part.
Having just the vision's no solution,
Everything depends on execution,
Putting it together, that's what counts.

Stephen Sondheim

#61. It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.

Harry Callahan

#62. Present effects are due to karmic causes from the past. However, future effects arise from the causes we make in the present. It is always the present that counts.

Daisaku Ikeda

#63. 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

#64. TRAINING FOR ANY ASPECT MEANS TO KEEP IT IN RIGHT TRACK AS PER MODERN GLOBAL RUN.NEITHER WEAKNESS NOR SOUNDNESS COUNTS NOTHING.

Various

#65. She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots.

Benjamin Carson

#66. There will always be bad times ... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

Mercedes Lackey

#67. Mind is all that counts.

Robert Collier

#68. The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.

Billy Graham

#69. How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.

Henry V. O'Neil

#70. It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters.

Carole King

#71. There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.

Tom Seaver

#72. Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary.
He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity; if he misses a cue, he is hissed; and if he drops through the trapdoor another puppet is in readiness to take his place.

Remy De Gourmont

#73. The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.

Bud Wilkinson

#74. 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

#75. After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

Djuna Barnes

#76. Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Mao Zedong

#77. 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

#78. As everyone knows, it's not the winning that counts: it's the taking part. Nonsense! That is the battle cry of the loser. This

Tom Whipple

#79. It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or ... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

George Harrison

#80. Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

Pablo Picasso

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

Sandra Bullock

#82. The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

Jean Cocteau

#83. Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

Bill Brandt

#84. A good night's sleep counts healthy sheep.

Brian Spellman

#85. Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council.

Chris Rock

#86. It's not where you are today that counts. It's where you are headed.

Arthur Lenehan

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

Ray Bradbury

#88. Your Beauty Is What Counts.

Selena Hernandez

#89. 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

#90. Overconfidence: As the WYSIATI rule implies, neither the quantity nor the quality of the evidence counts for much in subjective confidence.

Daniel Kahneman

#91. There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy - and if my voice counts, I will be vocal.

Shirin Neshat

#92. 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

#93. He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.

John Grisham

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

Hugo Ball

#95. Inside yourself you're strong. That's the place where strength counts. Strength shows not only in how fast you can chop down trees.' -p. 5

Irving Stone

#96. When it comes to semantic search and the success of your social media policy, truly, there is only one thing that absolutely counts: engagement.

David Amerland

#97. To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you're not aware of in the beginning, even though you're there trying to get them.

Herb Ritts

#98. It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Bryce Courtenay

#99. How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.

John Wooden

#100. It doesn't matter what humans think of you. What counts is what God says.

S.A. David