Matters Quotes

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters.

What you say is what matters.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.

The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

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.

What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.

Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.

... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.

Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.

Whatever the polls do between now and then, winning is what matters.

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.

What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

What matters is how many times you get up.

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.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

Above all, discard the irrelevant.

There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.