Desmond Tutu Quotes

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

I want people to realize that they matter.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

I read, therefore, I matter.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

With God, every day matters, every person counts. And that includes you.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are.

I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

What i want is for what i want to actually matter.

If you keep your perspective correct and understand that people are coming to you because your gift makes room for you in the world, then you do not need to wonder or worry about having to misplace your importance as a person.

When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

God sees you not only as a mortal being on a small planet who lives for a brief season—He sees you as His child. He sees you as the being you are capable and designed to become. He wants you to know that you matter to Him.

If you are somebody to anybody, you're somebody.

The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.