Quotes About Doing What Matters

#1. The key to achieving your sustainable best is to organize around doing what matters most.

Steve Shallenberger

#2. There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life. It don't matter what her reason was at the time, what matters is she come back for you, and even though you might think it's too late, it ain't never too late where a mother and her child is concerned.

Bernice L. McFadden

#4. But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.

Dan Savage

#5. What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

Stephen Covey

#6. I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

C.S. Lewis

#7. What you wear doesn't really matter much. All that matters is where you're going what you're doing while you're wearing it.

J.A. Redmerski

#8. You're doing fine, Cheryl," he said. "Don't worry about it too much. You're green, but you're tough. And tough is what matters the most out here. Not just anyone could do what you're doing.

Anonymous

#9. Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing deconstructing I'm going to start building ... What matters is what you are doing when you die ... I want to be building.

Muriel Barbery

#10. Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.

Michael White

#11. I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing ... the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.

John Coltrane

#12. I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.

Art Linkletter

#13. What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Walter Annenberg

#14. We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

Charlie Munger

#15. I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

Rafer Johnson

#16. It is not important what would you do for your love, what matters is what have you been doing for it.

M.F. Moonzajer

#17. It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

Cyril Connolly

#18. It's possible to make sense of what's morally at stake in an appreciation of the gift of life, or the gift of a child, without necessarily presupposing that there is a giver. What matters is that the gift - in this case, the child - not be wholly our own doing, our own product.

Michael Sandel

#19. It doesn't matter if you win or lose; what matters is if you learn from it or not.

Mohith Agadi

#20. We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has meaning to us, when it matters. We learn best when we are using our hands and our minds.We learn best when the work we are doing is real and relevant.

Dennis Littky

#21. It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#22. We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

Confucius

#23. If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.

Lights

#24. I'm fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in life, in all matters of life I would like to accept, but it's so difficult. I think we all have this struggle.

Lars Von Trier

#25. It is not what we do but how we feel doing what we do that matters.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#26. Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed.

Theresa May

#27. This is not about you making a million dollars. This is about you embracing the journey. The success was in finally taking this path. And by doing that you are empowering yourself! You are saying, 'My voice matters! What I feel matters! Who I am matters!' That is a full victory right there.

Laura Lynne Jackson

#28. He used to tell me that what really matters is having character and integrity, and that means always doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Joseph Hayes

#29. What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

Brigid Schulte

#30. I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself.

Virat Kohli

#31. We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Peter Singer

#32. Higher calling matters. When you care so deeply about the why-why you're doing what you're doing-then and only then are you operating in a way that allows you to overcome the obstacles.

Dave Ramsey

#33. An expert was once a beginner. Success does not lie in the results but in efforts. Being the best is not that all important. Doing it right is all what matters.

Osunsakin Adewale

#34. 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

#35. What matters most to me is doing what I was elected to do: help make life better for Oregonians and making America work for working Americans again.

Jeff Merkley

#36. The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.

Jeff Olson

#37. I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.

Mother Teresa

#38. What we are doing in this moment is what matters the most. Be mindful.

Debasish Mridha

#39. The reality is what you wear matters. If you're a singer and on TV and in the living room of some 12-year-old girl, she's watching what you're wearing and saying and doing ... That's what little girls do, so there is a big responsibility and I take it very seriously.

Taylor Swift

#40. But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?

Stephen King

#41. What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.

S.J. Rozan

#42. I'm appreciative that somehow I've always found a way through the years to capture a new fan base and continue to remain relevant in some space and still make a living doing what I love - to me that's all that matters.

Justin Smith

#43. How long someone's been doing it is overrated. What matters is how well they've been doing it.

Jason Fried

#44. I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

Carrie Brownstein

#45. It does not matter to God whether you wail He exists or not, what matters to Him is doing what He requires you to do with the life He gave you.

Chukwuka Amu

#46. ...More than looking, what we're really doing is gazing, and we do it for so long I start to get the feeling that nothing else matters.
It's a good feeling.
Better than good.
It's one I could get lost in.

Stephanie Kuehn

#47. 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

#48. What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.

Josh Lucas

#49. The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.

J. R. Martinez

#50. be much more friendly to such things that matter most .Things that will propel your vision and ambition to higher heights. Things that will help you enlarge your tentacles. Do not look down on small things however

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#51. It doesn't matter what you did or where you were ... it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!

Steve Maraboli

#52. What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

Malcolm McLaren

#53. In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

Aristotle.

#54. In The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper, Wayne is talking to Joe about "days that matter". Wayne says, "It's simple really. We were doing what we wanted to do, instead of what we expected ourselves to do.

Jonathan Tropper

#55. Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'

Robin Sharma

#56. Don't be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

Pablo Casals

#57. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. Even with Colombe I'll try to do something positive. What matters is what you are doing when you die, and when June 16th comes around, I want to be building.

Muriel Barbery

#58. Whether it's choosing a career or deciding what charity to get involved with, the choice should come from your heart. Ultimately you are the one who has to get up every morning and enjoy what you are doing, so make sure it matters to you.

Dave Thomas

#59. The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else.

Victor Shamas

#60. I think believing in something is what matters most.
Believe in nature or believe in love or believe that by
doing the right thing you can make some difference
to another human being or an entire generation.

Rachel C. Weingarten

#61. It doesn't matter what the other is being, doing, having, saying, wanting, demanding. It doesn't matter what the other is thinking, expecting, planning. It only matters what you are being in relationship to that.

Neale Donald Walsch

#62. 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