Matter Quotes

There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.

Here's the thing about Donald Trump: He never apologizes. He's never wrong, no matter what crazy thing he says. He's totally - he's the white Kanye.

Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable.

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

He has a plan for everybody here and it's all a matter of whether you answer it when He calls you.

It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.

No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

Your life is too valuable, your calling too great, & your God too awesome to waste your life on what doesn't matter.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.

Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else.

If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated.

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

No matter what you do, no matter how hard it is, no matter how challenging it isdo it with a smile on your face.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking

You have to chase your dreams, no matter what. The impossible just takes a little longer. One stroke at a time, one step at a time, the impossible is easy to achieve.

None of us can take anything with us when we're gone. It's what we leave that's gonna matter.

No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.