What Matters Quotes

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

Being a healthy woman isn't about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters-on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.

The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.

It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

The reason to consider life and what's of value is to make sure you're not missing out. Seize the day. What's important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that. Forget the rest.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.

What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - now is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

The things that matter the most in this world, they can never be held in our hand.

We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.

It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!

What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.

When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.

The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.

It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have, what you don't have. The only thing that matters is that you set a goal and you just dream, live, and fly.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.