Concern Quotes

• Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, God, Wisdom

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• There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

  Harold Stephens

  Crazy, Differences, Worry

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• The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Giving, Littles

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  Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

  Epictetus

  Life, Jealousy, Envy

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Responsibility, Humanity

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• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Prayer, Worry

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• I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

  Denzel Washington

  Party, Awards, Enough Time

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• Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Courage, Concern For Others

  First Radio Address following 9/11, delivered 15 September 2001

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• What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

  John Ciardi

  Poet, Theory, Feels

  John Ciardi (1963). “Dialogue with an audience”

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• Consult not your fears but your hopes
  and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.

  Pope John XXII

  Motivational, Success, Dream

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• So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

  Stephen Cambone

  War, Office, Support

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• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  Barry Commoner

  Art, Law, Medicine

  "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Loss, Architecture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Inspirational, Kindness, Compassion

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• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Victory

  Speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, September 25, 1961.

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• [War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Great Power

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• Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Responsibility

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist”

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• It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

  Horace

  Wall, Fire, Neighbor

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle xviii, line 84, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

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• Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Progress, Preoccupation, Technological

  "Uber CEO’s Time-Out Is a Wake-Up Call to Us All" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2017.

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• In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Innovation, Modern

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• There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

  Toni Morrison

  Cities, People, Black

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

  Paul Tillich

  Men, Able, Language

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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• It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Skills, Philosopher

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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• I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.

  Geoffrey Boycott

  Athlete, Winning, Thinking

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• Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

  Edward James Olmos

  Planets, Right Now

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