Matter Quotes

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

End, Become, Lives

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

Age, Mind, Issue

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Anne Roiphe

Beauty, Smile, Woman

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
Elayne Boosler

Long, Door, Three

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Respect, Personal

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Long, Stop, Slowly

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln

Fight, Cats, Seem

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.
Demi Lovato

Positive, End, Hard

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

Saying, Done, Night

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel

Music, Humanity, Healing

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Life, Humor, Laughter

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Alone, Find, Free

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill

Great, Another, Whether

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad Ali

Wrong, Color, Hating

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
Malcolm X

Truth, Justice, Against

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
David Rockefeller

Life, Good, Sad

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller

Happiness, Wise, Mean

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore

Through, Dark, Become

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, Advice, Answer

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Try, Again, Fail

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
George Chakiris

Love, Hope, Dark

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, After, Else

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare

Heart, Words, Mere

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Heart, Physical

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

Destiny, Chance, Choice

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X

Patriotism, Reality, Wrong

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

Time, Rich, Poor

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