Quotes About Living A Life That Matters

#1. Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters.

Michael Josephson

#2. I don't think Christ would give a hoot whether you mentioned Christ to them or not. What matters - I'm speaking arrogantly and absurdly - to him is, are you living the kind of life that I embodied? Whether you believe in Christ or don't, who cares?

Frederick Buechner

#3. Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.

Richie Norton

#4. In a race, what matters is not who started first, but who finished first.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#5. What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts ... But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

James Branch Cabell

#6. If you're crazy enough to do what you love for a living, then you're bound to create a life that matters.

Herb Kelleher

#7. If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.

Tracy Chapman

#8. Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply treat life as a psychedelic trip through a series of novel sensations.

Tim Harford

#9. In the end, the only thing that really matters is how we treated all living things.

Ka Chinery

#10. What you eat, how much you exercise, what example you set for those you influence are all matters of choice. Consistently making that best choice will add up to living your best life. Your health is the key to that.

Adam Rodriguez

#11. Life is a lie if truth is not found. Truth is just an idea if it is not lived. It is living that matters.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#12. Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.

Leonard Michaels

#13. I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.

Damien Chazelle

#14. At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

Phil McGraw

#15. Nothing else matters much ... not wealth, nor learning, nor even health ... without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#16. Better or worse, we are living such a fallacious world, where people like to seek their own interests in in others' matters.

M.H. Rakib

#17. At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and whether living an awakened life is of any use if we don't bring what matters to bear on the world.

Mark Nepo

#18. When you know that everything matters - that every move counts as much as any other - you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

Andy Andrews

#19. Purpose, meaning, significance - these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities. The act of living a full life by giving time to what matters is a balancing act.

Gary Keller

#20. If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.

Kate Winslet

#21. You can't live life waiting for things to go wrong, because then you're not really living. Everyone is going to die. That is part of the journey of living. What matters most is living each day you do have like it might be yout last.

Missy Johnson

#22. What matters most is that we learn from living.

Doris Lessing

#23. Make your footsteps count; let your footprints be counted

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#24. What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the petals of flowers, and everything else worthwhile. And that's as true for the last man as the first.

Fritz Leiber

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Life's like a book: What matters is the hook.
Be it short or long, just live it strong.
Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#28. In life we meet people and they come and go. But, only God will remain the same. Despite what others think, God's love is eternal. No matter who abandons you, God will never leave or forsake you.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#29. It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.

Sonia Rumzi

#30. What matters is what we make of our existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#32. What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

Aristotle.

#33. If you keep focusing on what people have to say or will say about you, you will lose focus of what God has called you to do. Never let distractions bother you...if you do, you will only be giving your energy to an unworthy cause.

Kemi Sogunle

#34. Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.

Tony Robbins

#35. Always keep in mind its not about how high you can jump, its landing on level ground that matters!

Victoria Addino

#36. Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)

Candy Lightner

#37. Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.

Frederick Buechner

#38. Are you God, Dr August? Are you the only living creature that matters? Do you think, because you remember it, that your pain is bigger and more important? Do you think, because you experience it, that your life is the only life that gets counted?

Claire North

#39. How we live as leaders matters.

Michael Hyatt

#40. 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

#41. Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live. Only under conditions in which the loss would matter does the value of the life appear. Thus, grievability is a presupposition for the life that matters.

Judith Butler

#42. Self-acceptance means living the life you choose to live without worrying what others think about you. It doesn't matter what someone else thinks about you. What matters is what you think about yourself. Life is about choices - your life choices, not someone else's choice about how you should live.

Sadiqua Hamdan

#43. Everything that matters hurts, until it doesn't matter anymore.

Dianna Hardy

#44. A living man is blind and drinks his drop.
What matter if the ditches are impure?
What matter if I live it all once more?

William Butler Yeats