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. My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters.

Frank Luntz

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. What really matters is not the value someone else assigns to a task but how I personally feel while performing it.

Chris Hadfield

#8. 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

#9. Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Andre Dubus

#10. God doesn't say, "Don't worry too much" or "Worry only about what really matters." He says, "Do not worry.

Amy Simpson

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe ...

Knut Hamsun

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. You don't have to do everything; just do what really matters.

Denise Austin

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us.

Syesha Mercado

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

Hale Irwin

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now.

Suzanne Young

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Test can't messure what really matters.

Orson Scott Card

#55. Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.

Akshay Kumar

#56. A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.

Nick Hornby

#57. The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.

Po Bronson

#58. What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

Rosa Parks

#59. Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice

Trey Songz

#60. What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

Robert D. Putnam

#61. What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at their core will have more of an impact on the cultural consciousness than a character who's just an empty collection of attributes.

Kurt Busiek

#62. What really matters to me is what my peers think.

Helen McCrory

#63. Faith Alone is what really matters.

Nichiren

#64. The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.

Joe Paterno

#65. What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts ... But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

James Branch Cabell

#66. There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.

J. Sterling

#67. It does not matter whatsoever, what the people around you think you can or cannot do. What really matters is what you think about your capabilities.

Abhijit Naskar

#68. Matter occupies space, and you can only have space for what really matters.

Marla Miniano

#69. Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Freeman Patterson

#70. You are satisfied with your day when there is a match between what you value and how you spent your time. On the other hand, when what you actually work on and accomplish during the day is mostly different from what really matters to you, you feel unfulfilled.

Matt Perman

#71. Don't judge a community by how much they are suffering but judge them by how much they are learning from it. That is what really matters.

Debasish Mridha

#72. What really matters is what you like, not what you are like

Nick Hornby

#73. Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.

Janet Morris

#74. At the end of the day; what really matters, is the love we sowed ...
Remember: true love will always find its way back home ...

Glory Shalom

#75. I don't waste time. I move. I finish things. I don't try and do things to the nth degree. I know what's important and what's not. I've really learned that. That's a judgement I've learned, what really matters.

Gail Kelly

#76. There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

Leo Buscaglia

#77. Maybe what really matters is technology's power to enable students to reach a vast and real audience that they could never dream of in the traditional classroom.

Yong Zhao

#78. The life of an Essentialist is a life lived without regret. If you have correctly identified what really matters, if you invest your time and energy in it, then it is difficult to regret the choices you make. You become proud of the life you have chosen to live.

Greg McKeown

#79. I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important ... what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

Ian C. Esslemont

#80. If you are not familiar with millibars, 1020 is high; 1000 is low; and what really matters is direction and speed of change.

Webb Chiles

#81. I would be remiss when talking about beauty secrets to not say that one of the best is to care about the world around you. That's what really matters.

Christie Brinkley

#82. For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.

Marissa Mayer

#83. When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.

Lisa J. Shultz

#84. It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#85. What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves.

Jerome A. Cohen

#86. Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them.

Jenna Jameson

#87. What really matters are the lives you touch along the way and how you finish your journey.

Nick Vujicic

#88. There's likely a place in paradise for people who tried hard, but what really matters is succeeding. If that requires you to change, that's your mission.

Stanley McChrystal

#89. What really matters?
people. always people.
protect yourself from people. but love some of them, also.
because that's all there is.

Julio Alexi Genao

#90. Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

Essence Atkins

#91. Real success isn't just a matter of chance or choice. What really matters, before you make a choice, is that you clarify and choose what really matters.

Tony Dovale

#92. All that matters is that artists keep reminding mortals about what really matters: the wonder, the glory, the madness, the importance and the improbability of love.

Hannah Mary Rothschild

#93. fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are. My

Banana Yoshimoto

#94. What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.

D. James Kennedy

#95. 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

#96. Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.

Richard Pipes

#97. What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

Fred Rogers

#98. In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

Nancy Horan

#99. People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Mick Jagger

#100. It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

Ralph Marston