Quotes and Sayings About What Matters
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As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.
-- A.S. King -
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.
-- Adam Rickitt -
Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
-- Adyashanti -
When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.
-- Agnieszka Radwanska -
Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.
-- Alan Rosenberg -
When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.
-- Albert Houtum-Schindler -
As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
-- Alfie Kohn -
[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?
-- Alfred de Musset -
in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
-- Alison Lurie -
What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience.
-- Andreas Feininger -
Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.
-- Andy Stanley -
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
-- Angela Carter -
We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
-- Angelina Grimke -
The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity, You know what you live for and what matters.
-- Angelina Jolie -
What matter is the information, not what you think about it.
-- Anna Politkovskaya -
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.
-- Anne Enright -
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
-- Anne Tyler -
What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.
-- Anwarul Karim Chowdhury -
What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and see what youre capable of. Your true goal is not to conquer fifty feet of inanimate rock, but to expand your abilities through learning.
-- Arno Hintjens -
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 -
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.
-- Arthur Koestler -
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.
-- Ashley Judd -
What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
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.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
We are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth or status or power or fame, but rather how well we have Loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.
-- Barack Obama -
I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.
-- Barack Obama
