Neglect famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again...
-- Ai Yazawa -
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
-- Alfred Adler -
The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
-- Allan Kardec -
Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.
-- Anna Gavalda -
Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.
-- Arthur Currie -
Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us ...
-- Constance Fenimore Woolson -
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.
-- Corliss Lamont -
The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.
-- David Benioff -
When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.
-- David Steindl-Rast -
The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.
-- Dorothy Nevill -
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
-- E. W. Howe -
Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
-- Edgar Saltus -
No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
-- Eduard Shevardnadze -
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.
-- Ernest Gaines -
Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.
-- Frank Loesser -
He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?
-- Gary Zukav -
Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.
-- George Crabbe -
Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!
-- George Matthew Adams -
Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
-- J. C. Ryle -
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
-- J. C. Ryle -
People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.
-- Jack LaLanne -
The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.
-- James Ellis -
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
-- Jeremy Paxman -
Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.
-- Jim Rohn -
Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect.
-- John Addison -
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
-- John F. Kennedy -
The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.
-- John Owen -
Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
-- John Stott -
People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.
-- Jules Romains -
The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
-- Marguerite Duras -
Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.
-- Martha Wainwright -
If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.
-- Martin Luther -
It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.
-- Mary Stewart -
Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.
-- Myles Munroe -
Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.
-- Napoleon Hill -
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.
-- Orville Dewey -
We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.
-- Orville Dewey -
Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
-- Oswald Chambers -
If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it
-- Philip Sidney -
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
-- Pliny the Elder -
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.
-- Pope Leo XIII -
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
-- Richard Whately -
No amount of activity in the King's service will make up for neglect of the King Himself.
-- Robert E. Murray -
If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.
-- Sterling W Sill -
Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.
-- Suzy Kassem -
My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
-- Thomas Eakins -
Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you....
-- Thomas Jefferson -
In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.
-- Todd Akin -
Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.
-- Wayne Gerard Trotman -
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.
-- Will Self -
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
-- William Wilberforce -
If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.
-- Yasmin Mogahed -
The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is #‎ eternal .
-- Yasmin Mogahed -
If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.
-- Debra Hamel -
More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.
-- Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt -
When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.
-- Max Anders -
Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.
-- Max Anders -
I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land easily here.
-- Carolee Schneemann -
Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new.
-- Percy Dearmer -
Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.
-- Edward Bouverie Pusey
