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“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”
William Hutchinson Murray
“I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one, I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known”
Confucius
“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice”
Ayn Rand
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others”
Albert Camus
“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.”
Millard Fuller
“Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.”
Italian Proverb
“The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.”
Oscar Wilde
“We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House—make no mistake about it.”
George W. Bush
“One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one”