Top 100 Quotes About Matters Most
#1. 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
#2. Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things - and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#3. What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.
Steven Furtick
#4. At the end of day, what matters most to God, what moves His heart, isn't our fancy words and impressive possessions - it's the condition of our hearts.
Victoria Osteen
#5. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#6. Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.
Dillon Burroughs
#7. Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Gautama Buddha
#8. Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.
George MacDonald
#9. I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.
Tony Horwitz
#10. 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
#11. On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.
Mitt Romney
#12. For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
Seth Godin
#13. Mom said to me, "You can't control how things turn out. It's what's in your heart that matters most.
Curtis Moser
#14. Percy, keep your mind on what matters most.
Rick Riordan
#15. What matters the most is who you love. Because when everything else is a distant memory, the people you love are all that's left. And love is the single most important thing we can do in our lives. Give it. Receive it. Teach others how to do it-Gran
J. Sterling
#17. It's not who you know, but who you are that matters most.
Keariene Muizz
#18. Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#19. When you cannot do what you have always done, then you only do what matters most.
Robert D. Hales
#20. The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.
Edward Snowden
#21. What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
Brendan Myers
#22. Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.
Randall Jarrell
#23. Race matters, and it matters most in those moments when we wish it didn't matter at all.
Terra Trevor
#24. Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
Brad Wenstrup
#25. Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
Phillip E. Johnson
#26. I don't find pastors and professors, for the most part, very interested in matters of formation in holiness. They have higher profile things to tend to.
Eugene H. Peterson
#27. Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless ... (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#28. What we are doing in this moment is what matters the most. Be mindful.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Love is not proud. Love does not boast. Love, after all, matters the most. Love does not run. Love does not hide. Love does not keep locked inside. Love is the river that flows through. Love never fails you.
Brandon Heath
#30. Don't discount this powerful use of appreciation. It is one of the great secrets of life. It's the feeling and emotion of appreciation that matters most, not the lip service.
D.S. Luca
#31. The average business page gets between 100 and 250 likes. This may not sound like a lot, but even at that level, if some posts go viral, your reach may expand to thousands. What matters most is that you get in the game.
Brian Basilico
#32. To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life.
We is so much better than I.
James Patterson
#33. The discussion itself is what most matters, the fact that we can reason together easily, with a blend of wit and seriousness, never descending into gossip or slander and always allowing room for alternative views.
Stephen Greenblatt
#34. The things that matter the most in this world, they can never be held in our hand.
Gloria Gaither
#35. It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.
John Wooden
#36. The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, encyclopedic minds: Empson, Kenneth Burke, Northrop Frye.
Paul Fry
#37. The important questions focus on what matters most-Heavenly Father's plan and the Savior's Atonement.
M. Russell Ballard
#38. At the end of the day, it's important to know what really matters most in life ... your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew.
Les Brown
#39. If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?
Rick Warren
#40. What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in"
and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.
Howard Zinn
#41. I think, actually, that none of us understands anyone else very well, because we're all too shy to show what matters the most. If you ask me, it's a major design flaw. We ought to be able to say, Here, look what I am. I think it would be quite a relief.
Elizabeth Berg
#42. We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful yet we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most: the way our mind functions.
Matthieu Ricard
#43. I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.
Rick Yancey
#44. I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
Gordon Brown
#45. Was i leaving a life that, if snuffed out in a plane crash, would leave a sweet aroma representative of what matters most?
Andrew Palau
#46. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell
#47. When, as the researchers put it, "life's fragility is primed," people's goals and motives in their everyday lives shift completely. It's perspective, not age, that matters most. Tolstoy
Atul Gawande
#48. The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#49. People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.
Jonathan Adler
#50. When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.
Marilynne Robinson
#51. My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go.
Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?
Eileen Wilks
#52. Every Democrat says he wants to be JFK while insisting that he will do more or less what LBJ did. No Democrat would dream of saying he wanted to emulate Lyndon Johnson, because the myth is what matters most.
Jonah Goldberg
#53. You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
Czeslaw Milosz
#54. The difference, I think, that matters is which of the religions are dangerous. They're all crazy, but which ones have the potential to turn that into death. In that area, I think we have to worry the most about the Muslims and the Christians
Bill Maher
#55. That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.
John Green
#56. When confronted with someone who appears to be in a perpetual state of outrage, it is tempting for other people to wind them up. Besides, I have always found the most vociferous guardians of morality on matters of sex are those who aren't getting any.
M.C. Beaton
#57. It's nice to think that the weirdos get to decide what matters about the past, since it's the weirdos who care the most.
Chuck Klosterman
#58. It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn
#59. Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.
Rick Warren
#60. History has shown that incumbents tend to fight trends that challenge established ways and, in the process, lose focus on what matters most: customers.
Jason Kilar
#61. Opinions are like orgasms ... mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.
Sylvia Plath
#62. Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.
Alex Tabarrok
#63. When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn't really feel like a sacrifice.
Kiera Cass
#64. Only by digging deep down to the core of our true self can we come to a place of inner certainty. Our underlying values and priorities are our personal navigational stars on life's journey - essential tools to chart a life course that embraces what matters most to us.
Marian Deegan
#65. Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
Vidya Balan
#66. Whatever it means,
it matters,
and most of it is true
I loved every one of them
and all of them ... were you
Merrit Malloy
#67. Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.
Paulo Coelho
#68. Past and future is determined by what is now ... right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.
T.F. Hodge
#69. 'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
Mary Astell
#70. When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow.
Stephen Covey
#71. The latest fashion ... is absolutely necessary for a painting. It's what matters most.
Edouard Manet
#72. The pettiest and slightest nuisances are the most acute; and as small letters hurt and tire the eyes most, so do trifling matters sting us most.
Michel De Montaigne
#73. Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.
William James
#74. If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most.
Erica Brown
#75. What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.
M. Russell Ballard
#76. What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.
Dean Ornish
#77. I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.'
Mark Canton
#78. Because of my value, I veil myself ... If I show too much, I wouldn't be revealing my true worth to you. I'd be distracting you from what matters most.
Jason Evert
#79. Not everything matters equally, and success isn't a game won by whoever does the most. Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis.
Gary Keller
#80. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#81. When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#82. The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.
Peter F. Drucker
#83. Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment. (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)
Mike Van Hoozer
#84. What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free ...
Henri Matisse
#85. What matters most:
"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."
Wind, Sand and Stars.
Richard Bach
#86. If I believed in curses, I would believe that this is mine: when it matters most, in the moments when I know with the greatest clarity exactly what needs to be done, everything I say comes out wrong.
Tana French
#87. Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most.
Bo Bennett
#88. I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.
Colleen Atwood
#89. Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself
Stephen Harper
#90. Promises hold no real value, What matters the most is not to loose yourself while fulfilling promises for others.
Alamvusha
#91. When you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.
Marion Dane Bauer
#92. 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
#93. Most kids grow sullen and angry when they're working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely?
Laura Anderson Kurk
#94. Remember, how you speak to people matters, and a lot more than you might realize. Especially when meeting people for the first time, your facial expression, handshake, and eye contact are most important - and one I strongly believe is the most important of all - ENTHUSIASM - when you speak.
Allan London
#95. So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.
Cheryl Strayed
#96. It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.
Margaret Thatcher
#97. People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.
Clotilde Hesme
#99. Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.
Andrew Tobias
#100. Most of us fail, but it's the journey that matters, not the ending.
Cameron Jace
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