Matthew Kelly > Quotes

“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“You’ve got the perfect mix of talents necessary to live the life God created you to live. There is no point worrying about the talents you don’t have.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“We have fallen into the tyranny of the urgent, which demands that we rush from one urgent thing to the next. The problem with this is that the most important things are hardly ever urgent.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? SATCHEL PAIGE”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“5. Be Open to Life: Your fourth quarter can be more of a birthing than a dying. Be open to what can be.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“to relive the third quarter when you are in the fourth quarter is a significant error. Trying to relive your college experience during mid-life is a mistake. Seasons have reasons. Each stage of life has a purpose.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“Here I am. I trust that you have an incredible plan for me. Transform me. Transform my life. Everything is on the table. Take what you want to take and give what you want to give. Transform me into the person you created me to be, so I can live the life you envision for me. I hold nothing back; I am 100 percent available. How can I help? Amen.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“Meet with the person you are capable of becoming for a few minutes each day.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“TRUST. SURRENDER. BELIEVE. RECEIVE. EXERCISE: PRAY THESE FOUR WORDS ALOUD RIGHT NOW. TRUST. SURRENDER. BELIEVE. RECEIVE.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“Do your priorities align with your stated values? How can you tell? There are two clear, objective indicators to examine. Time and money. We spend our time and money on who and what we value the most.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“Think about something you would like to do or see happen, but you think is impossible or unlikely. Ask yourself: What would have to be true for X to happen?”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“A good person strives to be honest, humble, generous, responsible, empathetic, selfless, patient, kind, moral, courageous, ethical, and grateful.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“We become the books we read”
― Matthew Kelly

“collaborating with God to create Holy Moments. What is a Holy Moment? “A Holy Moment is a single moment in which you open yourself to God. You make yourself available to Him. You set aside personal preference and self-interest, and for one moment you do what you prayerfully believe God is calling you to do.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“Prayer of Transformation Loving Father, Here I am. I trust that you have an incredible plan for me. Transform me. Transform my life. Everything is on the table. Take what you want to take and give what you want to give. Transform me into the person you created me to be, so I can live the life you envision for me. I hold nothing back; I am 100 percent available. How can I help? Amen.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“The challenge is to fill your hours and days with meaningful things, activities, and encounters with people.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“For the foolish, old age is winter. For the wise, it is the season of the harvest.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“It also helps to keep in mind that when we say yes to what is not intended for us, we miss out on what God created just for us. MAKE A LIST OF THINGS YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID NO TO THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFE.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“Let the young have their physical beauty. Elevate your pursuits to wisdom and soul beauty.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. GOETHE”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“This is one of the immutable truths found in the life of every person who has ever lived. We become what we celebrate.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“Do you believe that your future can be better than your past?”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ERNEST HEMINGWAY”
― Matthew Kelly, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life: Embracing What Matters Most