Top 100 What Matter Quotes
#1. Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Tiger Woods
#2. A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#3. Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot ... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.
Tim Bevan
#4. Work is what people do to survive. That kind of work is rarely interesting, least of all to the people who are doing it. The things we choose to pursue in our own time are what matter.
Ryan Quinn
#5. The cats were relaxing in a patch of sunlight on the rug without a thought in their sleek brown heads. What matter to them that it was Sunday-or even Thursday? Every day was Today in their scheme of things, and there was no such thing as Yesterday or Tomorrow.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#6. For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
William Tyndale
#7. We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.
Thomas Adams
#8. Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything ... .
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
Donald Norman
#10. In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are what matter. They are what survives.
Andy Lane
#11. It does not matter if you have fewer resources at your stack, what matter is how much of your possession you are ready to share with others. You not need to be a millionaire to help others; you can always help others with whatever resource at your disposal.
Pravin Agarwal
#12. Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other
outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#13. When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.
Michael Cadnum
#14. I broke my heart in two
So hard I struck.
What matter? for I know
That out of rock,
Out of a desolate source,
Love leaps upon its course.
William Butler Yeats
#15. Your yesterday does not really matter , what matter most is the days to come .
Osunsakin Adewale
#16. What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?
Steven Erikson
#17. More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands ... Relations are what matter most.
Michael Pollan
#18. A living man is blind and drinks his drop.
What matter if the ditches are impure?
What matter if I live it all once more?
William Butler Yeats
#19. They say that love hath a bitter taste.... But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth.
Oscar Wilde
#20. What matter it if a man gaineth the whole world and loseth his own soul?
Theodore Dreiser
#21. Facts are what matter, but how do you know which are the true ones?
Marty Rubin
#22. What matter though the scorn of fools be given
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!
Sarah Josepha Hale
#23. I was changing. Slowly, if you like, but what matter? To change is the great thing.
Colette
#24. The key to working smarter is knowing the difference between motion and direction. In the final analysis, results are what matter; attendance and activity don't.
John C. Maxwell
#25. Everyone has memories, Finn. Your prophecies are what matter. The visions that descend on you are the great gift and strangeness of the Starseer. They're unique. The people know that, the slaves and the warband, even Jormanric.It's in the way they look at you. Sometimes they fear you.
Catherine Fisher
#27. The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.
Pat Martino
#28. The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
Frances Perkins
#29. All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green ...
Ray Bradbury
#30. From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren,
What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes,
Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen -
The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?
Charles Baudelaire
#31. Life is like an overgrown garden. You can spend your time cursing the weeds, or you can work to pull them out. In either case, the flowers are what matter.
Sabrina Jeffries
#32. Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#34. What matter it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied."There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
Lewis Carroll
#35. But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
Samuel Beckett
#36. It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
Arthur Conan Doyle
#37. An age is the reversal of an age:
When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,
We lived like men that watch a painted stage.
What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:
It had not touched our lives.
William Butler Yeats
#38. The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. ( ... ) these three skills - self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most - are the foundation for self-control.
Kelly McGonigal
#39. Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
Levi-Strauss
#40. Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. In the West, opinions, perceptions, loyalties, and, ultimately, votes are what matter when the goal is to change public policy-or for that matter, cultural patterns. Serious inquiry and questions of truth are often a mere diversion.
Barbara Forrest
#45. In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.
David Horowitz
#46. Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, as if desire were a matter of personal choice.
Alice Hoffman
#47. Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
Bobby Scott
#48. I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.
Paul Theroux
#49. It didn't matter what he said. The world is terrifying. It always is. But Cecil reminded her that it was ok to relax in a terrifying world.
Joseph Fink
#51. No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
Lynda Barry
#52. What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
Albert Camus
#53. If you have a dream, chase it no matter what it takes.
James Harden
#54. I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.
Paul Walker
#55. The key is to be happy for no reason. Just be love. Just be it. Just be happy no matter what. Just share your love and know that like it's all ok.
Drew Chadwick
#56. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.
Joshua Harris
#57. It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
Watchman Nee
#58. It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.
George Harrison
#59. I thought it was important to speak about what I believe would be the right response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. I'm pleased to hear there is more sanctions maybe coming tomorrow. But the truth of the matter is I think we need less talk and more deeds.
Mike Pence
#60. I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.
Scott Brooks
#61. You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
Isaac Newton
#62. No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
Chuck D
#63. To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.
Daisaku Ikeda
#64. No matter what happens, no matter how bad things get, as long as we have love, there's always hope for salvation.
Travis Luedke
#65. I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.
Nikky Finney
#66. There's pressure to deliver as good of a movie with a little bit more of a budget, and that to me ... to me the hardest thing always is, I just want to deliver a good movie no matter what the budget is and no matter where we shoot it or any of those things.
Neal H. Moritz
#67. I try to always motivate young kids who want to be singers or actors or whatever it is they want to be that anything is possible with hard work. It doesn't matter where you're from or what language you speak - as long as you work hard, you can achieve those goals.
Prince Royce
#68. You can't change the past. But with God's help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path ... a better path ... His path.
Billy Graham
#69. Don't worry about what others think of you. It doesn't matter as long as you have your own Convictions and are proud of what you do.-RVM
R.v.m.
#70. I" before "E" except after "C" and when sounding like "A" as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and YOU'LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!!!!
Brian Regan
#71. I dress for myself because when I feel good, it doesn't matter what other people say. I think it's all about confidence and the way you carry yourself that draws people to you.
Emma Roberts
#72. Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.
Julian Simon
#73. I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.
Sharon Salzberg
#74. I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#75. No matter what, make an effort to react positively to each event.
Steven Redhead
#76. Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.
Ray Bradbury
#77. I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.
Bernie Glassman
#78. It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.
Julian Schnabel
#79. You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.
RuPaul
#80. Why, what is the matter, father dear?' 'Matter!' he yelled; he really yelled. 'This tie, it will not tie.
J.M. Barrie
#81. What you are doesn't matter. Because what you are isn't going to change who you are.
C.C. Hunter
#82. It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.
Stella McCartney
#83. No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.
Reeve Carney
#84. I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?
John Frusciante
#85. What does eternity matter to me? To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands - that is the supreme separation!
Albert Camus
#86. Well, what do you think you're doing, then? Spying?"
"I told you, it's the unfortunate hotness of evil. Hotness that burns like the flames of cute, cute hell." Rusty placed his hand on his heart. "But like I said, don't worry. I will overcome temptation, no matter how temptacious.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#87. No matter what religious tradition you come from, you likely carry baggage and harbor stereotypes when it comes to the Holy Spirit. It's
Francis Chan
#88. A cheater will cheat, no matter how wonderful his woman is. Some guys are scum. Cheaters cheat, no matter what." I
Kelley Harvey
#89. The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.
Henry Thomas Buckle
#90. No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.
Andy Serkis
#91. Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.
Edward Albert
#92. No matter what night preceded it, she had never known a morning when she did not feel the rise of a quiet excitement that became a tightening energy in her body and a hunger for action in her mind - because this was the beginning of day and it was a day of her life.
Ayn Rand
#93. No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.
Andrea Dworkin
#94. Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him ... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that.
Bindi Irwin
#95. But what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me? What others did was their responsibility, for which they would answer when the judgment trumpet sounded.
James Baldwin
#96. Tell me what a man does in the matter of Bible-reading and praying, in the matter of Sunday, public worship, and the Lord's Supper, and I will soon tell you what he is, and on which road he is travelling.
J.C. Ryle
#97. Don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote,
Richard Feynman
#98. It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#99. Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
Zane Grey
#100. People were the same everywhere, no matter what lofty vows they proclaimed. Help was given only in the hope of its being reciprocated. Expectations of reward lurked behind every act of altruism.
Steven Erikson
