Neglect Quotes

648 Neglect quotes by 487 unique authors

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… — Will Self
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it… — Malcolm Turnbull
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over… — George Washington
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts… — Noah Webster
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. — Richard Whately
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. — Richard Whately
It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words… — Ellen G. White
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be… — George Whitefield
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer. — William Wilberforce
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life.… — David Wilkerson
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of… — Mary Wollstonecraft
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty… — John Woolman
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing… — Julian Baggini
All of us humans have myriad other species to thank. Without them, we couldn't exist. It's that simple, and we can't afford to ignore them,… — Alan Weisman
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. — William Shakespeare
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are… — Alexis de Tocqueville
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by… — Edith Wharton
I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot. — Cate Tiernan
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care… — Thomas Jefferson

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