What Matters Quotes

• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Attitude, Yoga

  The Wall Street Journa, Summer 1993.

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• 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.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Care, Today

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• What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

  Fred Rogers

  Mean, Helping Others, Winning

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• What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

  Jason Fried

  Inspirational, Work, Thinking

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

  Confucius

  Important, Busy, Urgent

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  People, Earth, Fleeting Time

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

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• what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

  Charles Bukowski

  Motivational, Uplifting, I Hate You

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.505, Canongate Books

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

  Rajneesh

  Love, Rose, Doe

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• Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

  Orson Scott Card

  Together, Gone, Dies

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Be true to what matters most to your heart.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Attitude, Heart, Law Of Attraction

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Perseverance, Hard Times, Christian Inspirational

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Life, Inspire, Remember

  "Magical realism ... and fakery" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2001.

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• It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.

  Dr. Seuss

  Matter

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• The things that matter the most in this world, they can never be held in our hand.

  Gloria Gaither

  Hands, World, Things That Matter

  Gloria Gaither (1997). “Because He Lives: The Stories and Inspiration Behind the Songs of Bill and Gloria Gaither”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• What really matters is what you believe.

  Dan Brown

  Believe, Fidelity, Robert Langdon

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• There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Love, Relationship, Truth

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• What really matters is what you do with what you have.

  H. G. Wells

  Motivational, Attitude, Cancer

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

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• It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Book, Teaching

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• We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.

  Isaac Marion

  Matter, Next

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Real, Goal, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.

  Tom Robbins

  Survival, Important, Matter

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.371, Bantam

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• There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mindfulness, Down And

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, World, Bread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.137, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

  Jean Cocteau

  Past Present Future, Earth, Moments

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

  Michael Pollan

  Mean, Diversity, Woven

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