Counts Quotes - page 3

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official, I know that fighting for what is just is not always popular but it is necessary; that is the real challenge that public servants face and it is where courage counts the most. Without courage, our action or inaction results in suffering of the few and injustice for all. (Hilda Solis)
I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago... the only victory that counts is the one over yourself. View quote
Jesse Owens
What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously. View quote
Alessandro Del Piero
It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts. View quote
Tré Cool
You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts. View quote
Satya Nadella
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond. View quote
Stefan Zweig
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act. View quote
Ludwig von Mises
Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily... View quote
Wilhelm Reich
The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls, the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. (Propertius)
Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
...what really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hope doesn't mean anything.... Action's the only thing that counts. View quote
Margaret Haddix
It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family. View quote
Melina Marchetta
When you know that everything matters-that every move counts as much as any other-you will begin living a life of permanent purpose. View quote
Andy Andrews
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre. View quote
Susanna Tamaro
Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts. View quote
François Lelord
Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts. (Shannon Hale)
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. View quote
B. B. King
If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves. View quote
Walter Bonatti
The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get. View quote
Glen Cook
Here," she said. "This is for you." "I didn't really get you anything," I sputtered. "I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and--" "Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts. View quote
David Levithan