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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• The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Husband, Distance

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• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Responsibility, Humanity

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• Concern yourself not with what you tried
  and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXII

  Motivational, Success, Hope

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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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• 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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• Wisdom begins in wonder.

  Socrates

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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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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• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Art, Children, Knowledge

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• Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sympathy, True Friend, Giving

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Hair, Today, Length

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.427, Best Books on

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• Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  History, Amendments, Framers

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• My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Fighting, Should Have, Numbers

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• I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Evil, Taoism

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• Leaking of classified material is a concern.

  Robert Mueller

  Materials

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• What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Doors, Giving

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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Being Happy, Wisdom

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.17, Courier Dover Publications

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• My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

  Robert E. Lee

  Christian, Humble, Civil War

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• That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Mother, Children, Taken

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• It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

  James Bovard

  Administration, Favors, Conservative

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• Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

  Antony Hewish

  Teaching, Physics, Audience

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