It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Benito Mussolini

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry Miller

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
Sai Baba

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes

It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
Ralph Marston

What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. Wells

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
Sam Abell

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
Carter G. Woodson

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
Michel de Montaigne

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
George MacDonald

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Maimonides

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell