Top 100 Quotes About Things That Matter
#1. Do things that matter, things that will make those better, and things that will make you better.
Jessica Walsh
#2. [...]that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late.
James Frey
#3. In some ways the goals of teaching and writing are the same. You hope to connect to someone else, to make them care about what you care about. So that the things which matter, the things that matter to you, matter to them.
P.F. Kluge
#4. I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.
Amy Bloom
#6. I'm not going to tell you how I think you should live your life, or what I think you should do," said Mary. "Now's not the time. But I will say this: Don't try to paper over things that matter, Laura. The cracks will appear. Maybe not immediately, but they will.
Harriet Evans
#7. It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.
David Levithan
#8. I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
Vikram Seth
#9. The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!
George Carlin
#10. The things that matter most to me are eternal. The bonds of love shared within a family I believe to be eternal.
Mike Ericksen
#11. I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.
Hayley Williams
#12. You have to ask yourself, what are the things that matter to you most in your life? If you have to have a latte every day that'snice to have right now, but if you take that latte every day right now, you may wind up eating cat food when you are 70. And you have to decide which is worse.
William J. Bernstein
#13. What's a true Italian?" "He loved his family and he loved beauty. For a true Italian, those are the only two things that matter, because in the end that's what sustains you.
Adriana Trigiani
#14. The things that matter most are not things.
Art Buchwald
#15. The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.
Russell Hoban
#16. SINCE OUR GOALS REPRESENT THE THINGS THAT MATTER MOST TO US, SHOULDN'T WE FIGHT FOR THEM?
Michael Hyatt
#17. Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
G.K. Chesterton
#18. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.
David Levithan
#19. I know that the whole point - the only point - is to
find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to
let them go.
Lauren Oliver
#20. At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
David Cameron
#21. You don't get a lot of chance to talk to people about things that matter to you, do you? she asked.
Jo Walton
#22. Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.
Joe Biden
#23. Think of how much more time and energy we would have to focus on other things that matter if we weren't so busy surviving.
Rebecca Solnit
#24. Were men everywhere to ignore the things that matter little or not at all and give serious attention to the few really important things, most of the walls that divide men would be thrown down at once and a world of endless sufferings ended.
A.W. Tozer
#25. I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read
books about people and things that matter, books about life and death.
Will Schwalbe
#26. Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.
Peter Hollingworth
#27. I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.
John Lydon
#28. Jesus asks me to loosen my grip on the things that matter to me. It's only then He can fill my hands with His own treasures.
Anusha Atukorala
#29. Home's where the people you love are. It's about finding the things that matter to you, and holding on to them and taking care of them.
Charles Sheehan-Miles
#30. But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
Charlie Sheen
#31. We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.
Conor Oberst
#32. What shall we do at our tea party?" Daddy asked. "Do we sing and read poems like you do at Grammy's?"
"We can just talk. I can tell you about what's been happening at school. You can tell me about your work or what you did when you were a little boy. You know. Things that matter.
Babette Donaldson
#33. Just as a man carrying on his head a load of wood that has caught fire would go rushing to a pond to quench the flames, even so will the seeker of truth, scorched by the fires of life - birth, death, self-deluding futility - go rushing to a teacher wise to the ways of the things that matter most.
Huston Smith
#34. I was thinking about your mattering business. I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.
John Green
#35. I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.
Matthew Donnelly
#36. For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their personal honor so seriously they will fight for things that don't matter.
Peter Thiel
#37. Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.
Todd Strasser
#38. I think that's one of the biggest signs a person has matured - knowing how to appreciate things that matter to others, even if they don't matter very much to you.
Colleen Hoover
#39. Sometimes life will throw everything at you all at once. You can either catch it all or reach for the things that matter most. - Kathryn Perez
Kathryn Perez
#40. The Things That Matter convincingly lays out Nate Berkus's philosophy that things do matter. Our homes tell our stories, they reflect the places we've been and the people we've loved along the way - and there can be no more beautiful design for living than that.
Nate Berkus
#41. How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you.
John Green
#42. We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#44. Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.
Terrence McNally
#45. Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Max Beerbohm
#46. Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.
Mayim Bialik
#47. I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
John Green
#48. The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another
Jack Kornfield
#50. things in this life can be separated into two categories: Things that are valuable and things that matter.
Jim Stovall
#51. Time is one of our most valuable possessions. Use it wisely. Remind yourselves often that things that matter most should not be left to the mercy of things that matter the least.
O. Leslie Stone
#52. I see how he feels about his world and I want to be one of the parts he prizes. I want to be worth fighting for. Worth the same kind of effort he puts into the things that matter to him. Like Dani."
"I don't tell her no human matters to the boss like Dani.
Karen Marie Moning
#53. Choose the things that matter to God. See things as He sees them. Whatever results, that is the best way.
Jason M. Steffens
#54. You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
Michelle Bachelet
#55. The people you are closest to tend to be able to hurt you the most - that is why heartbreak is so hard to deal with, why death is so painful, and why fights can destroy things that matter.
Megan Wilson
#56. I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.
Tift Merritt
#57. The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.
Joss Whedon
#58. Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.
Dave Ramsey
#59. When we invest in the things that matter most to us, that are within God's unique design for each of us, I believe we will achieve a sense of balance in our lives.
Candace Cameron
#60. Things that matter in the morning somehow don't matter in the afternoon.
Walter Dean Myers
#61. I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Mark Victor Hansen
#62. Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.
Marty Rubin
#63. Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper ... talking about the things that matter to us.
Patricia Reilly Giff
#64. A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.
Alain De Botton
#65. Science makes major contributions to minor needs, Justice Holmes was fond of saying, adding that religion, however small its successes, is at least at work on the things that matter most.
Huston Smith
#66. I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
Anne Campbell
#67. Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don't.
Michael Emerson
#68. Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.
Joss Whedon
#69. But in our experience, the things that matter the most are the things that are the hardest and least fun to do.
Jordan Raynor
#70. The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price.
Suze Orman
#71. We all have a finite amount of energy and time to give, and must figure out the best way to have an impact on the things that matter to us most - and it's okay that each one of us will do it differently.
Jan Fields
#72. He loved his family and he loved beauty. For a true Italian, those are the only two things that matter, because in the end that's what sustains you. Your family gathers around you and shores you up while the beauty uplifts you.
Adriana Trigiani
#73. I have learned that a man can leave his home and the things that matter - that going does not have to mean gone.
Irene Wanner
#74. I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'
Khloe Kardashian
#75. Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
Desmond Tutu
#76. Easy things are worthless ... It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for ... If we don't fight other people's curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where's the meaning in that?
Andrea Cremer
#77. I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.
Ted Alexandro
#78. I still find myself reaching out and knocking twice on our wooden cutting board. Because you can never be too sure when it comes to the things that matter most.
Emily Giffin
#79. Don't let the things you think you need to do keep you from doing the things you actually need to.
Okay? Fight for the things that matter - don't waste your energy on the rest.
Nicole Williams
#81. The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. - Goethe
Leo Babauta
#82. You can never be too sure when it comes to things that matter most
Emily Giffin
#83. We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.
Tim O'Reilly
#84. There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
Nancy Gibbs
#85. Gabri and Myrna were very rich indeed, rich in the things that matter. In friendships and laughter, in kindness and company. People rich in money might belong at the Inn and Spa, but those rich in other ways belonged in the tiny village of Three Pines. Here, kindness was the real currency.
Louise Penny
#86. I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter.
Ellen McLaughlin
#87. It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.
Esther Meynell
#88. Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.
Chris Shays
#89. Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.
Bo Sanchez
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#95. If you are always looking for an impact, a legacy, and success, you will not take the time to care for the things that matter.
Michael S. Horton
#97. Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?
John Green
#98. As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
Seth Godin
#99. There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
Charles De Lint
#100. I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity, because I know from long experience that test scores, though useful, are a very limited measure of things that matter in choosing students.
Derek Bok
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