Things That Matter Quotes

• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed to Goethe by Johannes Falk in "Goethe aus näherm persönlichen Umgange dargestellt", 1832.

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• The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price.

  Suze Orman

  Price Tag, World, Matter

  Twitter post from Jan 2, 2017

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• The things that matter most are not things.

  Art Buchwald

  Humor, Deep Thought, Matter

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• Time is one of our most valuable possessions. Use it wisely. Remind yourselves often that things that matter most should not be left to the mercy of things that matter the least.

  O. Leslie Stone

  Matter, Use, Mercy

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• The Things That Matter convincingly lays out Nate Berkus’s philosophy that things do matter. Our homes tell our stories, they reflect the places we’ve been and the people we’ve loved along the way—and there can be no more beautiful design for living than that.

  Nate Berkus

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Home

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• Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Fun, Careers, Space

  "5 Rules for the New Year" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2013.

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• Do things that matter, things that will make those better, and things that will make you better.

  Jessica Walsh

  Design, Matter

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• Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

  Eric Butterworth

  May, Matter, Cognitive Therapy

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• Causes do matter. And the world is changed by people who care deeply about causes - about things that matter. We don't have to be particularly smart or talented. We don't need a lot of money or education. All we really need is to be passionate about something important; something bigger than ourselves. And it's that commitment to a worthwhile cause that changes the world.

  Steve Goodier

  Smart, Commitment, People

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Positivity

  "'We Have to Work Harder to Explain Why Trade Matters'". Speech to the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise by WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, www.wto.org. October 21, 2016.

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

  Jonathan Nolan

  Matter, Moments, Absurdity

  "Memento Mori". Book by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. 2000.

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

  Shoghi Effendi

  Past, World, Matter

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• You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

  John Green

  Matter

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.395, Penguin

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• It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

  Esther Meynell

  Past, Matter, Ends

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• It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

  John Green

  Thinking, Special, Needs

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.186, Penguin

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• If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Stress, What Matters, Pace

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• The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

  Seneca the Younger

  Matter, Bears

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• In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.

  Roger Housden

  Heart, Years, Sight

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• Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Regulation, Matter

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• They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.

  Austin Mahone

  Thinking, People, Matter

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• Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.

  Joe Biden

  People, Temptation, Matter

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• You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

  John Green

  Life, Real, Thinking

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• Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

  Chris Shays

  Passion, Matter, This Life

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