Best 165 quotes in «neglect quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.

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

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.

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

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

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.

They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.

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