W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.”
“What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.”
Source: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
“What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.”
“What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.”
“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“What matters most is how you live your life, not what you have to show for it.”
Source: Staying True
“What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.”
“What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back.”
Source: Keeping Merminia
“What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.”
“What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.”
Source: Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life
“What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.”
“What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.”
“What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.”
“What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do.'”
“What matters most is that each picture stands on its own with its own place and feeling.”
“What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.”
“What matters most is that we learn from living.”
“What matters most is that we make sure that the most vulnerable, worst-off people living in shantytowns are lifted out of poverty. It is growth, not carbon dioxide reductions, that will prevent the harrowing losses that the world’s poorest endure as a result of hurricanes.”
“What matters most is that you take the journey (of self awareness and transformation).”
Source: Modus Vivendi - Your Life Your Way: 7 Days to Self Transformation
“What matters most is the miracle in this moment.”
“What matters most is what feels right for YOU.”
Source: The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They Like
“What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.”
“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.”
“What matters most is you have been given life. Make the most of your existence.”
“What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.”
“What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.”
“What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.”
“What matters now is this, he said. He pulled me close, kissed the top of my head. Here, with you.
I was so eager to be loved by him, to be held in his arms and reassured, to shut out the ghosts of other girlfriends from the room like a cold draft, I said nothing more. Climbing on top of him, my hand on his chest, an animal warmth. I bent to kiss him and let the damp ropes of my hair drag across his face, his chest. He reached up and moved his hands through it, as if it were light or water.
I can see it all over your face, he said. Such naked wanting.
I told him that I'd always been afraid of wanting anything so badly that it becomes visible.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“What matters now, the only thing that matters right now is that whatever you think of the conservative movement and whoever you think is or isn't one, no matter who you think they are, they cannot unify around the concept of beating a Democrat. That's what you have to learn. If that's the movement you want to be part of, then you have at it.”
“What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?”
“What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.”
Source: Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet
“What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.”
Source: Knowing God
“What matters the most is what you do for free”
“What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.”
Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own
“What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.”
“What matters to me is my own estimation, and Im very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what Ive done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.”
“What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.”
“What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.”
“What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner.”
“What matters to me more than whether we participate in institutions or leave them is how we engage the imagination – dreams, art, poetry, music – since what each of us needs, and what we can engage, obviously differs and changes throughout out lifetime.”
Source: Why Religion? A Personal Story
“What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been as they should have been, that it is time to stop and see how they truly are. The making known of malfeasance, whether by the arrest or surrender of the miscreant, or by one of those other forms of confession, flight or suicide, is important as a signal that the euphoria has been overdone. The stage of overtrading may well come to an end. The curtain rises on revulsion, and perhaps discredit.”
“What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?”
Source: At the sweet hour of hand in hand
“What matters to you defines your mattering.”
Source: The John Green Collection
“What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?”
“What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.”
“What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.”
“What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.”
“What may appear to be the wrong way by other people's standards may indeed be the perfectly inspired path by which you will arrive at clarity of mind and a more authentic expression of yourself.”
Source: Where The Light Lives: A True Story about Death, Grief and Transformation
“What may be on the surface looks like one thing but it's often a much larger problem.”
“What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest”