Top 535 Matters Quotes

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.
Baltasar Gracian
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Blaise Pascal
I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
Dana Rohrabacher
As long as every tournament, every year, you’re getting better and better, that’s all that matters.
Brooks Koepka
It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.
Paul P. Harris
There are a lot of different demands on the campaign trail, but what matters most is that you connect with voters and take the time to really hear their concerns.
Bill de Blasio
It matters that we have balance and facts and push people when they need to be pushed so that we can give the accurate, fair, balanced piece to the viewer, and then it’s up to the viewer to be the judge.
Brooke Baldwin
Every day is different when I’m home, but mainly I just surf. There’s no nightlife or shopping, so it’s pretty mellow but really nice to come back to after a trip or an event. If you’re traveling, you’re all stressed out, then you get to Kauai, and nothing matters anymore.
Alana Blanchard
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
Barbara Boxer
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Hannah Arendt
I know what I need to work on, and I know what I need to prove and to show, and that’s all that matters.
Trae Young
I don’t care what other people think. I don’t think it matters.
John Malkovich
Authenticity matters; and, most importantly, the truth

Authenticity matters; and, most importantly, the truth matters.
Trish Regan
If you’re a person of faith that is conservative, that’s pro-life, as I am, that believes strongly in traditional family values, as I do… then how we talk about them matters.
Kevin Cramer
Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you.
Craig Newmark
What matters most in politics is personality. It’s not issues; it’s not image. It’s who you are and what you represent.
Frank Luntz
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
Anna Freud
I just want to continue to play great football – that’s all that matters. I don’t really care about the accolades or any of that.
Justin Tuck
Gay, straight, whatever – none of that actually matters when you’re fighting someone. Not what you have in your bank account, what you drive, what sex you are, none of it. I think that’s the message the UFC has been trying to push.
Forrest Griffin
Nothing you do particularly matters. But I’m not sure that’s a great excuse for doing it poorly.
John Malkovich
It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting – in Iraq or Afghanistan – certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.
Solomon Ortiz
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She’s my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer.
Helen Oyeyemi
The only place that matters is first.
Max Verstappen
Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
Madeleine Albright
We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them.
John Redwood
Any article’s good. Long as it’s publicity, I think that’s all that matters. I think it’s advancement for my career.
Brian Wilson
I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
Karlie Kloss
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.
Kenzaburo Oe
Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
Adam Grant
Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.
Trey Gowdy
If you’re happy, if you’re feeling good, then nothing else matters.
Robin Wright
I’m not too involved in day-to-day matters. I only supervise at the board level.
Adi Godrej
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
Joyce Carol Oates
When you have a kid, money matters.
Tony Parsons
We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.
Steve Daines
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
Angela Duckworth
I’m not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
Patrick Dempsey
Well I’ve already made it clear that it’s a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy.
Ron Davies
Performance matters because games are built on great performance, but form factor and energy efficiency matter incredibly because they want to build something that’s portable and transformable.
Jensen Huang
What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
Brendan Myers
People are affected by what they see, hear. This is wha

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.
Clotilde Hesme
Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you’re a hermit on a mountain, you don’t have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you’ve got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.
Judith Martin
Life is just a journey and how you traverse it is what matters.
Zeenat Aman
I want all the aspiring models out there to know that it’s definitely not just a pretty face that matters!
Milind Soman
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Doris Lessing
It always matters whether or not you can trust your government.
Trey Gowdy
In our house, Mother’s Day is every day. Father’s Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.
Margaret Heffernan
In ‘Healing the Soul of America,’ I wrote about Gandhi’s notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
Marianne Williamson
For the user, it doesn’t matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity, and as a technology provider, our job is to hide the complexity of the technology.
Padmasree Warrior
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
Fidel Castro
Sadly, when pastors choose to neglect controversial issues, they do great damage to the spiritual growth of their congregates. We have generations of young people in our churches who simply believe what the world believes on social and moral issues, and they don’t think biblically on these matters.
Ken Ham
Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that’s all that matters.
Becky G
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
Friedrich Schiller
The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that’s counted after all the votes are cast.
Mario Diaz-Balart
All that matters is that I stay healthy.
Alessandra Ambrosio
The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It’s the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.
Charles Kennedy
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.
Lysander Spooner