Matter Quotes - Page 5

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  Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  1983 Worst ward Ho.

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• My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

  William Standish Knowles

  My Family, Backgrounds, Family Background

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• Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, Strong, Clever

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1067, Delphi Classics

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• At the end of a matter ask, "What will I learn from this to make me better?"

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Tunnels, Ends, Asks

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Respect, Men

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Healing, Culture

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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• Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Children, Opportunity, Garden

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• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Mom, Mother, Home

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• Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Romantic, Thinking

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• No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Kids, Parenting

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

  Carmen Electra

  Travel, Individualism, Stink

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• In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Freedom, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

  Gordon Brown

  Father, What Matters, Nothing Matters

  2003 Following the birth of his son. Quoted in the Observer, 19 Oct.

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• Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

  Joan Rivers

  Dark, Optimism, Think Positive

  "11 Things Joan Rivers Taught Us About Life" by Erin Weinger, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2014.

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• We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

  Saint Stephen

  Financial, Finance, Treatment

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• I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

  Alan Perlis

  Learning, Technology, Thinking

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• News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

  Val Kilmer

  Watches, News, Television

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• Only the journey matters.

  Harry Callahan

  Journey

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• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Faith, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

  Desmond Morris

  Faith, Mother, Children

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

  Mark Twain

  Knowledge, Science, Rainbow

  A Tramp Abroad ch. 42 (1880)

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• Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

  Og Mandino

  Responsibility, Cutting, Thinking

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.102, Bantam

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

  Harold Bloom

  What Matters, Color, Hygiene

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