Quotes on What Matters

No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

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

What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

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

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

Being a healthy woman isn't about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters-on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.

Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.