Top 100 Quotes About What Really Matters
#1. But it's not enough to just "discover" the meaning of life. What really matters is whether we live according to our values, and that takes hard work and a hundred hard choices every day.
Greg M. Epstein
#2. I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.
Rian Johnson
#3. It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options. How sad for a person to be missing out on some expression of identity, just for not knowing there are options
Kate Bornstein
#4. My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters.
Frank Luntz
#5. Some roads we travel in life can feel like the ones that might break us, but that's why God surrounds us with people who will cheer us on and wipe our tears and listen as we pour out our hearts. Because often, it's not what you say but what you do that really matters.
Melanie Shankle
#6. Welcome to the ring. Enter those who dare, and let them share the spoils. Only they have earned it. Will you win? The ring offers no promises. But one thing's for sure: unless you get in the ring today, you don't even stand a damn chance. Decide what really matters, and get in the ring for it - now.
Julien Smith
#7. And really, when you grow up, and get over yourself, when you fuck narcissism and leave the hashtags at the door, you see what really matters in life.
Caroline Kepnes
#8. Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.
Oprah Winfrey
#9. What really matters is not the value someone else assigns to a task but how I personally feel while performing it.
Chris Hadfield
#10. When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.
Christine Caine
#11. With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.
Paulo Coelho
#12. Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.
Andre Dubus
#13. God doesn't say, "Don't worry too much" or "Worry only about what really matters." He says, "Do not worry.
Amy Simpson
#14. The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although not for children, the story is a good reminder to adults of what really matters!
Alex Kendrick
#15. In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
Chuck Klosterman
#16. A sackful of human flesh that lives off its nostalgia for other forgettable things until it comes face to face with what really matters, at which point it shivers like an engine before cutting out.
Miljenko Jergovic
#17. Focus is not a 'business only' thing. Each person has only twenty-four hours per day, and how we spend those hours shows what's important in our lives. The question we must ask ourselves is ... Are we focusing on what really matters?
Mac Anderson
#18. I'm better when I'm busy. I am happier. I am a bit useless when I'm not busy. I start thinking too much, which is never a good thing. When I'm busy I have a better perspective on what really matters - the priorities.
Richard Coyle
#19. What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#20. But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe ...
Knut Hamsun
#21. What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.
Billy Graham
#22. Can we, then, set aside the impatience that the Internet tends to breed, and the habits of being distracted which our highly compacted modern lives create, in order to focus on what really matters?
David F. Wells
#23. If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
Nido R. Qubein
#24. It ain't how hard you are when you're standing over top of someone that really matters. It's how hard you are when someone's standing over top of you that shows what you're made of.
Cedric Nye
#25. Love is holy because it is like grace
the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
Marilynne Robinson
#26. Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#27. The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death.
Henri Nouwen
#28. You don't have to do everything; just do what really matters.
Denise Austin
#29. It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that's who the focus is on - and it definitely doesn't matter if I am a woman or a man.
Gracia Martore
#30. We run a danger of trying to say the casualties are less than other wars or more than expected. It's just everybody matters, every person matters, and what really matters is having the strategy and the will to make sure any death is honored by achieving an objective.
George W. Bush
#31. It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.
Johnny Miller
#32. It just goes to show you that the "R" and the "D" are meaningless - what really matters is whether someone believes in the spirit and unending compassion of the individual, or instead in the destructive power of the collective.
Glenn Beck
#33. 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
#34. I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.
Brene Brown
#35. What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
S.J. Rozan
#36. The world always makes sure that you cannot fool yourself for long about who you really think you are by showing you what truly matters to you. How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
#37. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are
-Sirious Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
#38. I share the same advice that my mom gave me - stay hydrated and sleep well. And that being a beautiful person on the inside is what really matters.
Jessica Alba
#39. I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.
Carrie Brownstein
#40. Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?
Dennis Prager
#41. I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.
Kate Bush
#42. Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.
Lois Wyse
#43. I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.
Lena Dunham
#44. ...More than looking, what we're really doing is gazing, and we do it for so long I start to get the feeling that nothing else matters.
It's a good feeling.
Better than good.
It's one I could get lost in.
Stephanie Kuehn
#45. Every day in my consultancy, I meet men and women who are out of their minds. That is, they have not the slightest idea who they really are or what it is that matters to them. The question 'How shall I live?' is not one I can answer on prescription.
Jeanette Winterson
#46. You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they're being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they're being taken seriously and what they say really matters.
Harvey MacKay
#47. I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us.
Syesha Mercado
#48. September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.
Stephen Adly Guirgis
#49. I don't care if I ever hit radio, and I don't care if I ever get any bigger than this. I just wanna stand up for artistry because that's what really matters in music
Christofer Drew
#50. 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
#51. I think I've been fortunate enough to have a fairly long career and hopefully I'm at the middle of it now. And I think I'm starting to develop a certain amount of experience and a certain amount of wisdom about kind of what really matters and what doesn't matter.
Peter Berg
#52. Remember this - the truth of what really happens anywhere at any time can never be retrieved or known. All that matters are the reviews.
Ian C. Esslemont
#53. It doesn't really matter how you feel about your character; it just matters what you do with it.
Kiera Cass
#54. When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.
Avicenna
#55. If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you really have one of your own?
Jodi Picoult
#56. To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
Anne Sweeney
#57. Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)
Candy Lightner
#58. Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.
Kyrie Irving
#59. You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.
Hale Irwin
#60. Talking doesn't mean you have said something. What really matters is the message your words carry, not the sound, but the reveberation it causes on the soul.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#61. I'm a great believer in the fact that as you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have, or what their nationality is, or where they came from. And I think that's how Americans really do relate to each other on a personal level.
Condoleezza Rice
#62. 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
#63. Love is like a piece of chocalate. It's looks and tastes good, but it's dark. What really matters is the inside.
Touaxia Vang
#64. It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.
Chris Oyakhilome
#65. What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.
Oprah Winfrey
#66. What is clearest, most memorable and important about art is its coming into being, and the world's best works of art, while telling of very diverse matters, are really telling about their birth.
W.B.Yeats
#67. When you aimlessly shoot for lofty goals, with no personal connection to them, you loose sight of what really matters, and what will really make you content.
Jinkx Monsoon
#68. An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion." To the inquiry of "What religion?" the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."
Gilbert Burnet
#69. It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies
whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.
James Hudson Taylor
#70. The number of days or weeks we are together isn't important; what really matters is the way God knits our hearts together during the time He chooses for us to be in one another's lives.
Katie J. Davis
#71. What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.
Albert Schweitzer
#72. In those moments, none of it matters. It's like that stuff is happening to someone else because all you feel is dark inside, and that darkness just kind of takes over. You don't even really think about what might happen to the people you leave behind, because all you can think about is yourself.
Jennifer Niven
#73. Yes, I am sinful and flawed, but I am also loved and welcomed. It doesn't really matter what other people say or do. God loves me, even in my brokenness, and that's all that matters.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#74. It wasn't the New World that mattered ... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#75. What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
Pope John Paul II
#76. What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
Sheryl Sandberg
#77. What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.
Leila Sales
#78. When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#79. It's not whether your glass is empty or full, it's what you do with it that really matters.
Sue Nelson Buckley
#80. In the chaos of everyday life, it's easy to lose sight of what really matters, and I can use my habits to make sure that my life reflects my values.
Gretchen Rubin
#81. What else could you want in a person other than kindness and humor? I'm not sure anything else really matters to me.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#82. In The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper, Wayne is talking to Joe about "days that matter". Wayne says, "It's simple really. We were doing what we wanted to do, instead of what we expected ourselves to do.
Jonathan Tropper
#83. It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.
Janine Shepherd
#84. To be mindful of our fragile fate each day, in a non-morbid acknowledgment, helps us remember what is important in our life and what is not, what matters, really, and what does not.
James Hollis
#85. The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#86. There are a lot of different demands on the campaign trail, but what matters most is that you connect with voters and take the time to really hear their concerns.
Bill De Blasio
#87. Did you ever stop and ask God if your current position is the one He has chosen for you, if where you are now is where He wants you to be? It makes no difference what the salary or working conditions are like; what really matters is, has God called you to that job and place?
Terry Nance
#88. It doesn't matter what you look like really though, it is who you are that matters of course.
Josh Peck
#89. What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.
Bob Taft
#90. It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now.
Suzanne Young
#91. But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you."
"Me what?"
"Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that.
Ayn Rand
#92. Adversity is what illuminates quagmires, but all that really matters is destiny.We cannot be blinded by present circumstances which roar like Goliath and sent shivers down the spine. That's not what destiny holds, remember; mercy spurned is demise embraced.
Trinity Tinashe Masunungure
#93. How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Stephen R. Covey
#94. What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.
Paulo Coelho
#95. To create your best work, you'll have to make room for it. You'll have to cut out the excess noise and focus on what really matters:
Jeff Goins
#96. Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.
C.S. Lewis
#97. As much as the constitutional argument matters to me, what really matters to me is this sort of moral question of can we order somebody to risk their lives about a military mission if we're not willing to debate, vote, and say that the military mission matters?
Tim Kaine
#100. Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.
Akshay Kumar
