Best 165 quotes in «neglect quotes» category

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

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?

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

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

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

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

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

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

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

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

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

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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.

I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means; and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.

I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.

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.

It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.

It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

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.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.

Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

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.

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.

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

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.

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