Top 100 Quotes About What Matters
#1. If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#2. What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.
Frank Luntz
#3. Learn and train yourself to take the hits in life. Obstacles, barriers and setbacks will come. What matters is how you tackle them, work your way around or find your way through them.
Roopleen
#4. But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
Veronica Roth
#5. Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' - such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.
Dan Meyer
#6. Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
Sue Monk Kidd
#7. I always want to have a new challenge involved. I need to put myself to the test, and if I make mistakes, it doesn't matter. What matters to me, instead, is making my dreams come true and putting them on display.
Yohji Yamamoto
#8. There comes a moment when you realize what matters the most in your life. Let that moment be now and that matter be your love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#9. It doesn't matter what it looked like. What matters is the truth. (Mr. Peabody to Tommy)
Madonna
#10. you approach everything in your life with a certain degree of intention, you can affect the outcome. At the absolute minimum, you will affect how you feel about the outcome and that is ultimately what matters the most.
Sophia Amoruso
#11. It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.
Dr. Seuss
#12. No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.
India.Arie
#13. I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.
Clay Aiken
#14. Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#15. Once the industry has been pared to its essence and its essentials, once we determine what matters most and needs protection, once we find the means to support that work, then journalism can grow again.
Jeff Jarvis
#16. Who cares what time you wake up and go to bed? What matters most is what you do with your life in between.
J.R. Rim
#17. When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.
Agnieszka Radwanska
#18. I think we're avoiding the most important question here. What matters most. What means the most to men like us."
Conall growled at Billy Dunwich's sincere face. "I am not telling you if she swallows."
Dunwich smiled. "Just tell me if she's a good girl ... or if she's a very good girl?
Shelly Laurenston
#19. What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.
Anwarul Karim Chowdhury
#20. This life requires scars. Some are more obvious than others, and some are only on the inside. What matters is how you spend your time during the good parts.
T.S. Joyce
#21. World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.
Bonnie Hammer
#22. Well then," said I, "if God does not forsake me, of what ill consequence can it be, or what matters it, though the world should all forsake me, seeing on the other hand, if I had all the world, and should lose the favour and blessing of God, there would be no comparison in the loss?
Daniel Defoe
#23. What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead?
No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled.
Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread
To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.
Joyce Kilmer
#24. You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it
which is what matters most.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#25. To see them succeed, to see them improve, that is what matters.
Frederick Lenz
#26. You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective.
Lev Grossman
#27. Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters.
Leon Brown
#28. 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
#29. You see only with your heart, because your eyes miss what matters.
Kochka
#30. None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race.
Jason Versey
#31. what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim." "If
Amor Towles
#32. Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled ... in a unique and inimitable way.
Vladimir Nabokov
#33. You must determine your goal. What matters most? Winning arguments? Or resembling Christ? Even in the heat of an argument we should be asking ourselves if we are acting like Christ.
Francis Chan
#34. Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.
Paul Russell
#35. Outward appearances are deceptive. What's within them, beneath them, is what matters.
Ryan Holiday
#36. I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.
Vladimir Putin
#37. None of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam culture.
Richard Dawkins
#38. The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'
Lee Hall
#39. But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#40. What matters most are eternal happiness than temporal things on Earth..
Charlyn
#41. The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.
Adam Langer
#42. What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.
J.I. Packer
#43. I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
Patrick Macnee
#44. It is of no consequence what people think of you. What matters is what you think of them.
Gore Vidal
#45. What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
Johannes Tauler
#46. You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.
Kevin O'Leary
#47. What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!
Donald Trump
#48. The gospel should meet people at the point of their deepest confusion and at the height of their loftiest ideals. What matters most is that we bring Christ into every moment of human history and every point of human concern.
Christopher W. Brooks
#49. Comment on the authorship of the Pentateuch (Genesis - Deuteronomy)" -" ... it is not the author who is important. What matters is the existence of a message that is relevant to the community.
Samuel Ngewa
#50. Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction ... What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#51. It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
Oprah Winfrey
#52. In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I've wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.
Ray Dalio
#53. What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience.
Andreas Feininger
#54. What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?
Stephen Covey
#55. People hurt each other all the time just by being. What matters is that when you hurt someone, you do what you can to make it right.
Amy Lane
#56. What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.
Jeremy Renner
#57. The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
Peter Davison
#58. When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
Alfie Kohn
#59. An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.
Ellen Kushner
#61. What matters is to aid others, to have a group dream.
Frederick Lenz
#62. Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the reader is the singular event that distinguishes one such voyage from all the others and makes for a story worth telling.
Peter Selgin
#63. What matters is 'Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?' That's our real goal, and that's what we're going to stay focused on.
Satya Nadella
#64. Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.
Victor Hugo
#65. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.
Gabourey Sidibe
#66. Yes every performer is applauded what matters are its echoes surrounded!
Auliq Ice
#67. I think you understood me wrong. I don't give a damn if he's alive. I don't care if he's healthy. He's dead to me, and that's what matters to me.
Sahana Epari
#68. When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#69. It doesn't much matter whether people care or don't care. What matters is that people change the world.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#70. Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life's negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation.
Viktor E. Frankl
#71. Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.
Peter Drucker
#72. I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.
Kristin Hannah
#73. In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.
Paul Watson
#74. We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions,
Bethany Hamilton
#75. Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.
Haruki Murakami
#76. What matters is that she becomes an engaged lifelong learner and an adaptable thinker who can thrive in any environment and is comfortable dealing with other cultures.
Ben Green
#78. Rose spoke up softly beside me. 'It's how you handle the unfairness of life -that's what matters, I think.'...In this city of imprisonment, I had seen faith and optimism, strength and fortitude in the face of adversity.
Ann Howard Creel
#79. What matters is that someone - that you - know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.
Richelle Mead
#80. I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.
Crystal Woods
#81. What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.
Richard Branson
#82. Life is like a trek to the mountain top. Everyone will eventually climb to the top. Later, or sooner, doesn't matter. What matters is - the person who holds your hand and prevents you from falling, the one who is always there to ease the climb for you ...
Mehek Bassi
#83. What God says about you is what matters, than what others may think of you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#84. Sometimes what matters in not what you go looking for, but rather what you find when you're not looking.
Beth Wiseman
#85. Life is like a foot race, Marcus: There will always be people who are faster than you, and there will always be those who are slower than you. What matters, in the end, is how you ran your race.
Joel Dicker
#86. Sometimes everything you know in the world turns out to be a lie. But at the end of the day the lie isn't what matters, it's what you do after you tell it. If you work hard enough you can make it true.
Hope Estheim
#87. A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love.
Frederick Lenz
#88. What matters is what we do with the life we have.
Carrie Ryan
#89. You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what's big and what's little, what matters and what to put aside.
Miley Cyrus
#90. What matters in the story of our human relationships is not whether they lead to happily ever after but who and what they make of us. All relationships are our teachers, and this is especially so in a time of societal unraveling.
Carolyn Baker
#91. Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life. It don't matter what her reason was at the time, what matters is she come back for you, and even though you might think it's too late, it ain't never too late where a mother and her child is concerned.
Bernice L. McFadden
#93. By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
William Morris
#94. We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.
Steve Daines
#95. That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#96. I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.
Barack Obama
#97. Life itself is a journey after all, and what matters most is not what you are getting, but who you are becoming.
Robin S. Sharma
#98. Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
Jeff Bezos
#99. What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
Catherynne M Valente
#100. It doesn't matter if you win or lose; what matters is if you learn from it or not.
Mohith Agadi
