Neglect Quotes

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.

Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.

We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy

If the Christians continue to desert Jesus Christ in His temple, will not the Heavenly Father take away from them His well-beloved Son Whom they neglect?

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.

Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!

Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two!

I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new.

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.