What Matters Quotes

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.

What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

In anything I do I try to stay true to myself because I think that's what matters most, and then the challenge is getting all these different sides of my personality to fit together in one box. It isn't an easy task. But that's basically what the end result represents.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

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?

No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

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.

What matters most is that each picture stands on its own with its own place and feeling.

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow, Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea, What matters beating wind and tossing billow If only we are in the boat with Thee? Hold us quiet through the age-long minute While Thou art silent and the wind is shrill : Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, are in it; Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will?