Concentration Quotes
618 Concentration quotes by 463 unique authors
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Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions of Jews on…
— Edgar Steele
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When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.
— Adolf Hitler
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Then one day I realized that a false picture of the German camps had been created and that the problem of the concentration camps was…
— Unknown Author
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There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor…
— Hannah Arendt
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Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has…
— Dustin Diamond
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Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the…
— Garry Kasparov
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The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither…
— William Matthews
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Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.
— Edwin Land
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The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one…
— Unknown Author
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...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the…
— Peter Benenson
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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose…
— Judit Polgar
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If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education…
— Stephen Covey
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Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces…
— Ayn Rand
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Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Kyra Sedgwick told me, 'Keep your heart where your feet are' and that's incredibly difficult to do. It takes a lot of concentration. You've got…
— Angie Harmon
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What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and…
— Truman Capote
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The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons…
— Alvin Toffler
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Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles.... So my problem…
— Frank Laubach
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What I want to avoid is staying at the same place. As I improve in skills, musical interpretations, and acting, I am able to approach…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Concentration Quotes
463 authors contributed a total of 618 Concentration Quotes, led by these top contributors: