Quotes About Concern

Reactive people, on the other hand, focus their efforts in the Circle of Concern. They focus on the weakness of other people, the problems in the environment, and circumstances over which they have no control.

But we will trust you nonetheless. You are bitter, and bitterness is a sign of concern. I trust that.

Pardon me that I have feared for you. Fear is born in doubt, and you have not merited my doubt.

Recuerda, hoy es el mañana acerca del cual te preocupabas ayer. DALE CARNEGIE, ESCRITOR

Worry is not true thought. Worry is a misuse of the imagination.

Owners of the spirit are beautiful losers. They risk all. They are losers because they have lost all fear of embarrassment. They have lost all inhibition. They have lost all concern for what other people might think.

I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

Fear is intensified by passionate love. The more I care about someone, the more I'm concerned about their welfare. The less we have to lose, in one sense, the easier it is to be "brave."

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

The atonement of Jesus Christ is the supreme act of love, the supreme example of selfless concern for others.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

You can decide for yourself what truth there might be in that concern after reading this book. :)

It was impossible for me not to conclude that some of what had reduced her to her monthslong state of moral paralysis was not so much guilt about potentially contributing to the negative effects of human striving on the broader world, as it was the sense of moral superiority that concern about such things brought her (despite the exceptional psychological danger of embracing this dismal view of human possibility).

To adopt authority is to learn that power requires concern and competence—and that it comes at a genuine cost.

Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.

I fear for my books.

There were rumors and jokes and casual remarks made about him, and the bishop and his staff were content to allow Joshua's reputation to be determined by these remarks. It showed the poverty of their concern for the real life of the community and the little value they placed on reputations.

Is that the only reason you want to follow him—because he might be in danger?" "No." Cinderpaw sat down. "I think he may be doing something he will live to regret.

She doesn't have to worry about me. We're not even kin!

Fireheart, of course not. But . . . well, I think there might be something wrong with Snowkit.

Who's that?" he exclaimed. "She's the most beautiful cat I've ever seen! Why is she so sad? Oh, my whiskers, is she bleeding too? What on earth is wrong with your Twolegs? Why don't they take better care of you?

Is Gray Wing sick?" Black Ear asked Slate. White Tail lifted his nose knowledgeably. "He's got the sniffles. Reed Tail's been giving him herbs just like the ones he gave me when I had the sniffles.