Neglect Quotes · Page 12

We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot…

— T.I

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of…

— Henry David Thoreau

What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.

— Sun Tzu

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as…

— Thomas Aquinas

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

— François Lelord

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s…

— Edwidge Danticat

In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.

— Alison Rose Levy

It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what…

— Saint Augustine

The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore…

— Charles Babbage

People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy.…

— Esther Perel

“Neglect transpires when the accountable adult fails to provide sufficiently for the needs of a child. It may be deliberate and conscious…

— Patricia Dsouza

Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting…

— Vance Havner

We overvalue nonessentials like a nicer car or house, or even intangibles like the number of our followers on Twitter or the…

— Greg McKeown

The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of…

— Henry Clay

I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be…

— Yasmin Mogahed

God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants…

— A. B. Simpson

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in…

— Samuel Johnson

I don't want to get so lost in thinking about me and talking about me all the time in interviews. It's so…

— River Phoenix

The thing that got me about the Orphan Trains was that the experiences were so varied. Some of the kids went from…

— Laura Moriarty

The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad…

— David Rosner

We show our adoration by going to visit Christ in the tabernacle or exposed in the monstrance. Would it not indeed be…

— Columba Marmion

We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let…

— Elyse Fitzpatrick

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went…

— Gorgias

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged,…

— Heloise

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused.

— Samuel Johnson

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we…

— Rick Scarborough

We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

— Orville Dewey

“When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Confucius

We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health…

— Pico Iyer

I love the game of basketball so to neglect one side of the floor, that's disrespecting the game to me.

— Aaron Gordon

If the Christians continue to desert Jesus Christ in His temple, will not the Heavenly Father take away from them His well-beloved…

— Peter Julian Eymard

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.

— Garrison Keillor

We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that…

— Charles Murray

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and…

— Thomas Merton

It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel…

— Kurt Hahn

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long,…

— J. K. Rowling