What Counts Quotes

#1. In his greediness, he counts all that he has clutched as nothing in comparison with what is beyond his grasp, and loses all pleasure in his actual possessions by longing after what he has not, yet covets.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#2. 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

#3. It's not getting to the wall that counts; it's what you do after you hit it.

Darren Hardy

#4. What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

Paulo Coelho

#5. Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

Crystal Waters

#6. It's not what you know; it's not even who you know; it's what you implement that counts.

Brian P. Moran

#7. I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

Joan Rivers

#8. What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.

Friedrich Von Logau

#9. Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Cesare Pavese

#10. Turning your heart's desires into actions is what counts most.

Steven Redhead

#11. We live in a world where action is what counts.

Melinda McGraw

#12. We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

Mother Teresa

#13. What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little string dolls. I talk to roaches. I'm in jail for nine counts of murder, and I didn't do it. I'm in solitary confinement, may I add.

Charles Manson

#14. I'm going to fight for you. I'll bring down the Counts, and Chloe, and every Sector in the universe that gets in my way without think twice. I'm not interested in what the future has planned. I want to share everything with you, Skyla. I'm in love with you.

Addison Moore

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

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#16. I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

George Gershwin

#17. Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

Francois Lelord

#18. You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird ... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing
that's what counts.

Richard Feynman

#19. It does not matter how far we have gone in the wrong direction, it does not matter how many golden opportunities we have allowed to slip by us; what counts now is that we have woken up from our deep slumber and with this awakening comes our next line of action.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#20. People can't help what they feel. It's what they do that counts

Siri Hustvedt

#21. It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.

Judith McNaught

#22. It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

L. Frank Baum

#23. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Earl Weaver

#24. Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#25. Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

Ernie J Zelinski

#26. As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

Robert Fulghum

#27. Because what matters, what counts, isn't how well you are loved, but how able you are to give love.

Richard House

#28. What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

John Wooden

#29. The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

Umberto Eco

#30. It's what you do that counts, not what you consider doing.

Ann Aguirre

#31. It's what inside that counts, she reasoned defiantly. Love conquers all: even mismatched outfits and saggy jumpers.

Eleanor Prescott

#32. Bit by bit, putting it together ...
Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art.
Every moment makes a contribution,
Every little detail plays a part.
Having just the vision's no solution,
Everything depends on execution,
Putting it together, that's what counts.

Stephen Sondheim

#33. 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

#34. The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.

Billy Graham

#35. Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary.
He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity; if he misses a cue, he is hissed; and if he drops through the trapdoor another puppet is in readiness to take his place.

Remy De Gourmont

#36. Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Denis Waitley

#37. It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or ... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

George Harrison

#38. Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

Pablo Picasso

#39. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Ray Bradbury

#40. Your Beauty Is What Counts.

Selena Hernandez

#41. Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

L.M. Montgomery

#42. He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.

John Grisham

#43. It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Bryce Courtenay

#44. It doesn't matter what humans think of you. What counts is what God says.

S.A. David

#45. It's not what your reproductive organs do that counts, it's what your mind intends before that moment.

Sheri S. Tepper

#46. 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

#47. What you repeatedly do carries the clay to mold you into who you eventually become. Don't despise any tiny minute of the day; each counts so much!

Israelmore Ayivor

#48. What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

Gloria Steinem

#49. Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#50. Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

George Sand

#51. Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.

William Levitt

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts.

John The Apostle

#55. The old adage which says that it is 'whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

Judith McNaught

#56. I mean, I know it shouldn't matter. Everyone says it's what's inside that counts. Unfortunately, that just isn't the case for the vast majority of society. Even when they claim they see you for who you are, they usually don't. And you find that out sooner or later, no matter how much it hurts.

Alanis Knight

#57. What exactly did you do for exercise, Georgiana?" he says, giving me a skeptical look. "Twirl your hair?"
"If I do it vigorously, it counts as cardio.

Lauren Layne

#58. Shit happens to the best of us, Cara," Damian says suddenly. "It's how you deal with it that counts. You've gotta fight for what you want, otherwise this life will chew you the fuck up and spit you right out. You're either a fighter or a nobody,

Michelle Horst

#59. What counts is a way to get along with people that will bring us personal satisfaction and, at the same time, not trample upon the egos of those we deal with.

Les Giblin

#60. What constitutes American painting? ... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call 'American' outside of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change ...

Arthur Dove

#61. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.

John Fowles

#62. 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

#63. In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.

Pericles

#64. What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

Orison Swett Marden

#65. So let me tell you, Nicky, there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.

Arthur Hailey

#66. Coming up with the answers quickly and accurately is what counts the most.

Toru Kumon

#67. Original discoveries, to remind you, are what counts the most. Let me put that more strongly: they are all that counts. They are the silver and gold of science.

Edward O. Wilson

#68. What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

Matthieu Ricard

#69. We can get so much out of golf. I know I have, and I'd like to see the same for you. Golf is the game of a lifetime, one in which you can get better and better. It's not what you do that counts, but what you attempt to do.

George Knudson

#70. What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Emile M. Cioran

#71. When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence,' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

Amber Riley

#72. What we have is pretty meaningless. It's what we are that counts.

Gene Simmons

#73. It's not what you do some of the time that counts, it's what you do all of the time that counts.

Jack LaLanne

#74. I don't talk about my hair anymore because I've matured. I matured and realized it doesn't matter what you look like. It's what kind of hair you have inside that counts.

Garry Shandling

#75. Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?

John Eldredge

#76. It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really counts is spirit, love. What really counts is a sense of propriety and dedication.

Frederick Lenz

#77. What counts that we're not counting?

Frank Sonnenberg

#78. For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.

Dave Navarro

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

Brandi Chastain

#80. Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.

Eknath Easwaran

#81. I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts.

Michael Ruse

#82. What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#83. You are what you do when it counts

John Steakley

#84. What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

Theodore Roosevelt

#85. What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

Merton Miller

#86. It is not what we do for God that He counts worthy, but the work we let Him do in us.

Oswals Chambers

#87. Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.

J.A. Konrath

#88. The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

Henry Miller

#89. Have you felt, as I have, the impression to help someone only to find that what you were inspired to give was exactly what someone needed at that very moment?
That is a wonderful assurance that God knows all of our needs and counts on us to fill the needs of others around us.

Henry B. Eyring

#90. It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.

Mae West

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

#92. Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

Walt Disney Company

#93. Life is like a voyage with a beginning and an end. It's what happens between the two that counts." Captain Hank Bracker

Hank Bracker

#94. What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you" (102). - Tony Gonzalez, "The Giant Within

Denzel Washington

#95. Every time somebody ever told you that you weren't gonna amount to anything, you know, that's your time to shine, you know? You can show everybody and prove to yourself what you're doing is real and that it counts and that it makes a difference.

Frank Iero

#96. 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

#97. The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Ernest A. Fitzgerald

#98. We are not to be so concerned about who approves or disapproves of us, but remember that God's approval is what counts. Those whom God approves are approved indeed.

Myles Munroe

#99. It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious.

Chloe Sevigny

#100. As I've been telling your, son, you get nowhere looking at clothes and the color of the skin to judge a man. It won't tell you nothing about what's inside. That's where a fellow's mettle is, and that's what counts.

Richard Puz