Top 47 The Only Things That Matter Quotes
#1. Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real?
Stasia Ward Kehoe
#2. The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.
Roland Smith
#3. There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
Sam Walton
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness."
"Some things last."
I faced him. "Really? And just what would that be?"
"The things that matter.
Mary E. Pearson
#7. The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours all his life to outdo his competitors, only to find the end that the rich are no happier than the poor in the things that really matter.
Adam Smith
#8. Until you find where the goal post is, you shall only exert all your precious energy and ability shooting in the direction of goal kick without scoring any goal
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#9. I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts
Jeremy Grantham
#10. That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.
David Levithan
#11. The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge
and guilt.
Elvis Costello
#12. 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
#13. Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
Ann Voskamp
#14. Life is short. And when all is said and done, our relationships with Jesus Christ and each other are the only things that will matter.
Gary Rosberg
#15. I don't have to do things just to please people. It's okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they're really the only ones that should matter.
Nicki Minaj
#17. The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world has ignored is ignorance!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#18. Love is when two (or more) hearts build a safe emotional, mental, and spiritual home that will stand strong no matter how much anyone changes on the inside or the outside. It demands only one things and expects only one thing: that each person be his or her own true self.
Neil Strauss
#19. the only thing you'll find at the summit of mount everest is a divine view, the things that really matter lie far below it
Peak
#20. The gentle Rabbi reminds us that few things really matter and only one thing is necessary ... Martha found it in the gentle reminder to slow down, let go, and be careful of challenging another woman's choices, for you never know when she may be sitting at the feet of God.
Rachel Held Evans
#21. People give the worst advice about lost things. Retrace your steps. Pray to Saint Anthony. Think about where you last saw it. But that doesn't apply to the things that matter. Those are right in front of you, except they can't be found by looking for them. Only by looking at everything else.
Kristen Lepionka
#22. In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.
Hank Aaron
#23. The only difference now, for what it's worth, is that I know that these things don't matter. I know that I don't have to know anything, and I know that I don't have to fell frightened of not knowing-I just have to be here
Kevin Brooks
#24. You must remember your God is sovereign and all things come to pass by his own design. The hardest thing I have seen humans struggle with in trusting that whatever happens, no matter what the enemy sends your way, your God is still God, and he desires only good for you and your loved ones." Emily
Jen Gentry
#25. 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
#26. Things always change when someone you love dies. You just can't prepare yourself for those changes no matter what you do in advance.
The only thing that's a certainty in always wondering who's going to be next.
J.A. Redmerski
#27. What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey
#28. Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
Phyllis Bottome
#29. You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.
Richard Petty
#30. Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
John Frusciante
#31. Skyler, you are the love of my life, I hope you know that. Walter junior, you're my big man. There are ... there are going to be some things, things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. I just want you to know that, no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart. Goodbye.
Walter White
#32. Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.
Alice Waters
#33. Rethink Your Success Mindset: At the end of your life, the only things that really matter ... are matters of your heart.
Tony Dovale
#34. 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
#35. I'm not a believer that you should set quotas for these things, because I think what happens is no matter how qualified the woman is who gets the job, people will say she [Hillary Clinton] shouldn't have gotten it. She only got it because she's a woman. That is the problem with quotas.
Christy Clark
#36. When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'
Sarah Louise Delany
#37. It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter.
Scott Belsky
#38. 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
#39. The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
Gary Wolf
#40. If you want to go to places worth going, you have to be open to personal growth. No matter how much your job pays you, if it doesn't offer you the opportunity to grow, your efforts would only go to waste. There are really just some things that money can't buy. Never stop learning!
Kevin J. Donaldson
#41. 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
#42. It does not matter how awesome your product is or your presentation or your post. Your awesome thing matters ONLY to the extent that it serves the user's ability to be a little more awesome.
Kathy Sierra
#43. 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
#44. the only things that really matter in this world are the relationships you have with the people you love, and the meaningful things that you do. Haters don't fit anywhere into that. Don't devote any mental space to them.
James Altucher
#46. We've been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they don't. There's no such thing as the right career, or morality, or destiny, or fate. There's only life. And whether you honor it or ignore it. It's ironic, but in trying to find God we've been ignoring life.
Trevor D. Richardson
#47. Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.
Greg McKeown
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