Neglect Quotes

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.

Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.

Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.

The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?