Quotes About What Counts In Life

#1. What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Nelson Mandela

#2. What counts in life usually cannot be counted.

Robert Gordis

#3. I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.

Sophia Loren

#4. Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

Steve Backley

#5. What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#6. Every second counts. Live in this moment. This is life. This is what matters.

Claire Contreras

#7. What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts.

Amy Carmichael

#8. At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

Yehuda Berg

#9. Some things in life are just out of our control. It's what we do about them that counts.

Nora Roberts

#10. It is not the years that count; what counts is what you did in those years.

Debasish Mridha

#11. The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.

Gelek Rimpoche

#12. What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.

Brian Dennehy

#13. I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life
I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life
day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is that I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.

Robert Fulghum

#14. A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.

Erich Maria Remarque

#15. Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.

Chip Conley

#16. What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.

Muhammad Ali

#17. It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.

Orna Ross

#18. I wanted to show, as Tooly's life enfolds [in The Rise & Fall of Great Powers], how one's earliest stories condition how one encounters the world: what one expects of strangers, whether one counts on justice, whether one veers into cynicism or veers back again.

Tom Rachman

#19. Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

Ralph Boston

#20. When we focus on people and life instead of material possessions and mere wants, there's not much room for emotional hand-wringing. Instead, there's more space to weigh what we value in our lives and to acknowledge what really counts. Chapter 9 Simplicity Laura Ingalls in The Long Winter

Erin Blakemore

#21. Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.

Barbara Burke

#22. In the end, it doesn't matter what words are said or unsaid ... Life's mistakes are made whether you can see them or not. What counts is how we learn to live with them.

Gail Tsukiyama

#23. We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

Joseph Fort Newton

#24. In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

Hubert H. Humphrey

#25. You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Brandi Chastain

#26. Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

Michelle Huneven

#27. We're here today, gone tomorrow and all we have in between are the little moments we can fill up with life, with love. It's not the big things we do, it's the energy we put into making special moments every day. That's what counts.

Jan Hambright

#28. Life goes on without regard to our whims. What we make of life is what counts, how we address the challenges in our lives determines our respective levels of personal accomplishment and happiness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#29. What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

Helen Keller

#30. Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.

Marissa Moss

#31. In life, we all have a second chance but it's what we do with those chances that counts.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#32. Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

Bruce Lee