Quotes About The Things That Matter Most

#1. Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.

Bo Sanchez

#2. Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn't matter if things aren't going the way you thought they would or if you're facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you're winning.

Mara Schiavocampo

#3. No matter how much violence or how many bad things we have to go through, I believe that the ultimate solution to our conflicts, both internal and external, lies in returning to our basic or underlying human nature, which is gentle and compassionate.

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#5. Fact, no matter how minutely observed, is truth with a small "t." Big "T" Truth is located behind, beyond, inside, below the surface of things, holding reality together or tearing it apart, and cannot be directly observed.

Robert McKee

#6. Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real?

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#7. A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

Laura Riding

#8. It was exactly the sort of thing I needed to be reading that afternoon: a story where, no matter how bad things got, you knew everything was going to turn out fine in the end.

Heather James

#9. No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

Henry Rollins

#10. I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.

Sam Worthington

#11. Most things look better from a distance ... And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435

Joseph Delaney

#12. No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.

Norman Vincent Peale

#13. It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.

Watchman Nee

#14. Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

Harold S. Kushner

#15. Build your hope on Him. No matter how many things seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to push them aside and look to Him. "Look to Me. . .

Oswald Chambers

#16. No matter what happens, no matter how bad things get, as long as we have love, there's always hope for salvation.

Travis Luedke

#17. I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

Alan Arkin

#18. No matter how bad things got, we could always make ourselves new again.

Sara Pennypacker

#19. I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.

Nikky Finney

#20. One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

James Surowiecki

#21. There's pressure to deliver as good of a movie with a little bit more of a budget, and that to me ... to me the hardest thing always is, I just want to deliver a good movie no matter what the budget is and no matter where we shoot it or any of those things.

Neal H. Moritz

#22. Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off ...

Jenna Blum

#23. Some things just won't go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

Ruta Sepetys

#24. Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.

Banana Yoshimoto

#25. The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

Roland Smith

#26. On the day the Gjallerhorn is blown, it will wake the gods, no matter where they are, no matter how deeply they sleep.

Heimdall will blow Gjallerhorn only once, at the end of all things, Ragnarok.

Neil Gaiman

#27. Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

Anne Lamott

#28. We all have our little secrets, and as long as they're harmless, who really cares? With time, the secrets often go away and things don't matter anymore.

John Grisham

#29. No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

Helena Bonham Carter

#30. I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.

Bernie Glassman

#31. No matter what happens or how difficult things become, you will eventually feel better.

Chris Rock

#32. Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.

Matthew Tindal

#33. There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.

Anthony James Leggett

#34. People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.

Charles McCarry

#35. I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

John Frusciante

#36. Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.

Guy De Maupassant

#37. No matter what painful things happens, even when it looks like you'll lose... when no one else in the world believes in you... when you don't even believe in yourself... I will believe in you!

Rem

#38. Art, like life, is really just a matter of how you choose to look at things.

Alexa Land

#39. To process thoughts well is a matter of being able to avoid confusion, detect ambiguities, keep things in mind one at a time, make reliable arguments, become aware of alternatives, and so on.

Simon Blackburn

#40. Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.

Karen Karbo

#41. Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

Charles Dudley Warner

#42. No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.

Andy Serkis

#43. It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car.

Ice Cube

#44. There's certain things that you cannot cross, no matter who you are, what you're doing or where you're coming from.

Wladimir Klitschko

#45. Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.

Emmet Fox

#46. If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.

Alona Tal

#47. No matter the challenges we face in life, there is always a guardian angel watching over us and will make things right at the appointed time.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#48. Do things that matter, things that will make those better, and things that will make you better.

Jessica Walsh

#49. A lot of people worry about
the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings.
I feel it's more a matter
of people treating the things that surround them
with respect.

Albert Hadley

#50. I hope these simple things are what I forever love about life, for then I will be happy no matter where I find myself.

R. YS Perez

#51. Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Arthur C. Clarke

#52. In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.

Peter Maurin

#53. Leadership is fragile. It is more a matter of mind and heart than resources, and it seemed that we no longer had the heart for those things that demanded discipline, commitment, and risk.

Gene Kranz

#54. I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.

Sue Townsend

#55. When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.

Eric Church

#56. The thing that matters is meaning! It drives everything. Builders align their attention to the things that matter to them, and they know a lot about that stuff.

Jerry I. Porras

#57. In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

Gautama Buddha

#58. No matter how much you try to do things your own way at all times, you can always be thrown for a loop.

Shamara Ray

#59. When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.

Thomas Kinkade

#60. And I realized that even if she didn't know it yet, everything had changed for her. She wouldn't stay here now, no matter what happened with Will Traynor. She had an air about her, a new air of knowledge, of things seen, places she had been. My sister finally had new horizons.

Jojo Moyes

#61. Work is what people do to survive. That kind of work is rarely interesting, least of all to the people who are doing it. The things we choose to pursue in our own time are what matter.

Ryan Quinn

#62. One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No matter how far I may think I can go without it, it always tend to slap me right back in the face! So why not do what naturally fills your soul. Music completes me.

Mandisa

#63. A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

Bill Gates

#64. But you could also look at it the other way. Like you're saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

Sarah Dessen

#65. My golden rule has always been to look on the bright side, no matter what. With all the complications in my life, I had to. Because if you can find three good things in any given situation, no matter how dire, I guarantee you'll forget the rotten stuff.

Hester Browne

#66. Thank You, Lord, that You are with me in everything that I face. No matter what comes against me, You are greater and more powerful. I ask You to be with me in the things I face today. I praise You and Your greatness in the midst of all that seems large and looming in my life.

Stormie O'martian

#67. I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

Neil Gaiman

#68. Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

Donna Karan

#69. I knew the things happening in my life would eventually define my future, and I guess I hoped no matter what occurred those things wouldn't ultimately define me.

S.R. Grey

#70. There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

Sam Walton

#71. Nothing is ever perfect. There is always some good in the bad and some bad in the good. What is important is to know if the good can make up for the bad. Fight only for those things that matter. Because otherwise after a point the battle will seem pointless.

Mansi Soni

#72. Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

Julia Cameron

#73. Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the zip code-those are just nouns, things that are fun to have around, sure, but in the end, they have nothing to do with the real me. Nothing to do with who I really am.

Alyson Noel

#74. Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

Diane Ackerman

#75. God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, "You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen."

Hafez

#76. If I'm to die a mortal, why shouldn't the same fate be given to all, no matter how long they've lived or how important they think they are? All things must eventually come to an end.

Morgan Rhodes

#77. While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.

Benigno Aquino III

#78. Never give up on your dreams. No matter how many people say it's impossible, no matter how difficult your journey is, you can create your ideal life. Your heart's desires can become reality. Make things better now by taking steps every day to get closer to the life you want. And never, ever give up.

Susane Colasanti

#79. I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.

Guillermo Del Toro

#80. Now I've changed things. I've left my own fingerprints on the world, no matter how small, and it's upset the equilibrium of us

Markus Zusak

#81. Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

Winona Ryder

#82. My advice is this, do whatever pleases yourself. These things don't matter. What does matter is that if you have anything worth while in you, any talent, you should deliver it. Nothing must turn you from that.

Patrick Kavanagh

#83. I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

Molly Sims

#84. It is, quite possibly, a matter for argument, whether the time may not soon arrive when it would be wiser to urge him towards things he has a turn for and will do well, rather than push him towards things which you pre-conceive to be better and which certainly are better for other people.

Catherine Bailey

#85. If I could only teach you one thing about the world, it would be to Appreciate and be as present as possible in every moment. Take everything in and try and learn from it. No matter how tangled things get, there is always a lesson to be learned in the untangling of those things.

Bethany Brookbank

#86. The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.

Thomas Merton

#87. The way we saw things, it didn't matter that God had created the heavens and the earth - he did not want us excited about living here. A good fundamentalist worth his weight in guilt was quick to remind any skeptic that the world was going to hell in a handbasket.

Matthew Paul Turner

#88. There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

Gloria Estefan

#89. Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.

Arlene J. Chai

#90. Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Robert Jordan

#91. For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

Adam Croasdell

#92. Tired soldiers made mistakes. Learn to sleep when it was time to sleep, no matter how chaotic things were, trusting it would be better the following day.

Nicholas Sparks

#93. Spend time doing things that matter.

Robin Sharma

#94. I didn't know then that a person is never sure about a lot of things, no matter how much he wants to be.

Stephen King

#95. Out of all the Grizzly kids, Ben had never been deep in the club, instead focusing on academic things. But he was still family, no matter what, even if he had no desire to be a Patch.

Jenika Snow

#96. It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

Horace

#97. But God does use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It doesn't matter who we are really - just who He is. - Miz Opal

Martha Finley

#98. Honey, no matter where you are, I'm with you.
When the breeze brushes your cheek, that's me.
When the stars sparkle and shine, that's me.
When the tulips bloom in the spring, that's me.
The little things.
She's there,
in the little things.

Lisa Schroeder

#99. It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long body. The kind of person who in the Middle Ages would come up over the hill on his horse, and they'd say, 'Get Wogan,' and I'd be there with my shield, the first to die.

Terry Wogan

#100. Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

Barbara Jordan