Top 80 Be Careless Quotes
#1. To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#2. It is hypocrisy alone that leads men to be careless about themselves, [240] and haughtily to despise others.
John Calvin
#3. Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
#4. When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless.
Simon Sinek
#5. Two big punchers, you've got to keep your chin down, keep your defense up, don't be careless or open, box sensibly, control the centre of the ring and when he lets his punches go, believe me he's gonna know all about it.
Joe Calzaghe
#6. My time has is here, my mission has failed, but in spite of my limitations i will never loose faith. life is just a process, some do good while some do bad, i thank God for salvation because in times like these i could be careless working on my own defensive violating plans..
Ryan Leonard
#8. Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
#9. I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense, but just enough to be careless.
"For God's sake," I said, "yes, don't you?"
"Oh, how charmingly you get angry," he said. "I wish I had that faculty.
Ernest Hemingway,
#10. I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
Mario Puzo
#11. If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.
Napoleon Hill
#12. A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
Clifton Fadiman
#13. God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless
Saint Augustine
#14. Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not-Don Corleone
Mario Puzo
#15. He knew that to be careless in dress and manner required more confidence than to be careful.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#16. We should not be careless toward the fulfillment of our calling
Sunday Adelaja
#17. I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I am careless; I forget rules; I read when I should learn my lessons; I have no method; and sometimes I say, like you, I cannot bear to be subjected to systematic arrangements.
Charlotte Bronte
#18. Become careless with fire, and sure enough, fire will burn you. Do treachery, and treachery will be done you. Kill, and be punished with death. All these I've done. Now I pay the price, in my own flesh and blood.
Diane Duane
#19. There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#20. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
#21. Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.
Thomas S. Monson
#22. We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.
William Penn
#23. The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.
Hannah More
#24. How careless of me!" By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.
Tom Holt
#25. The spirit of my films ... I always want them to be kind of contrarian. Meticulous on the one hand, but unbelievably sloppy and careless on the other. I guess that's what you get anyway, if you're not planning very much.
Guy Maddin
#26. Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond ... But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#27. who can describe beauty? The reader may smile at this as the far-off echo of a precocious calf love, but he will be wrong. There are beauties so unambiguous that they need no lens of that kind to reveal them; they are visible even to the careless and objective eyes of a child.
C.S. Lewis
#28. If a man cannot learn well a melody on pipe or harp, unless he in every way strain his attention; how shall one, who sits as a listener to sounds mystical, be able to hear with a careless soul?
John Chrysostom
#29. Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred ... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.
DeWitt Wallace
#30. We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a very damning knowledge to be portrayed as curious and careless seductresses.
Gioconda Belli
#31. People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. Stupid, stupid-to be so careless with our time, to believe we had so much of it left.
Lauren Oliver
#33. I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.
Margaret Drabble
#34. In a world where the larger majority of society is careless, it's the small percentage of people who make the choice to be different and prioritize relationships that stand out.
Farshad Asl
#35. Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.
Libba Bray
#36. Language changes over time. Meaning twists. Mistakes compound with each transcribing. Even those stalwart sentinels of perfection - numbers - can, in a single careless moment, be profoundly altered.
Steven Erikson
#37. Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Marcus Aurelius
#38. Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
John Piper
#39. As noble as our intentions might be as we assume a leadership role, we are always one errant, unthinking action or careless word away from getting outside the boundaries of good judgment or even the moral absolutes that must frame all decisions.
Tim Irwin
#40. Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
P. J. O'Rourke
#41. You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!
Edith Wharton
#42. Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.
Vladimir Nabokov
#43. It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful ...
Tom Robbins
#44. There are gems of wondrous brightness
Ofttimes lying at our feet,
And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
Down the busy, crowded street.
If we knew, our pace would slacken,
We would step more oft with care,
Lest our careless feet be treading
To the earth some jewel rare.
Rudyard Kipling
#45. The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of the modern habit of swift and careless reading is seen in the impatience with which anything is regarded which is not to be taken in at a glance.
Arlo Bates
#46. But I shall follow the endless, winding way, - the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
Herman Melville
#47. A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
Anna Quindlen
#48. Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#49. For much of my life I floundered under the excuse of "nobody's perfect," the liberating and over-used phrase that affords guys like me the freedom to pile up sins in a careless and unchecked way. Ironically, being perfect is precisely what we are called to be!
Tarek Saab
#50. If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it vigorously! A careless pilgrim only scatters the dust of his passions more widely.
Various
#51. I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
Laura Wade
#52. I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there
Jodi Picoult
#53. Relevance, Wilde once explained, was a careless habit that should not be over-indulged.
Kim Newman
#54. On the other hand, looking careless could just be privileged give-a-shit Ivy League attitude, like wearing duct tape on loafers and jeans with holes in them, knowing all along that they were headed straight to Wall Street or Washington and three-piece suits.
Karl Marlantes
#55. I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.
Charles Lamb
#56. The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#57. Girls who want to be warriors can't afford to be so careless. And: Girls will bleed, and they will cry.
Edan Lepucki
#58. I'll tell you from my heart, looking at their party further and further to the left, to paraphrase the director of the FBI: I think it would be extremely careless to elect Hillary Clinton.
Mike Pence
#59. Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.
Michael Pollan
#60. Maybe if people weren't so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.
A.S. King
#61. It didn't seem right that Sinead could be so careless with other people's lives but still lover her brothers so much. Did loving them make her less of a villain, or did loving them and still being a traitor make her more of one?
C. Alexander London
#62. A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
William Shakespeare
#63. I understood that assisted conception was the antithesis of careless, spontaneous or unplanned parenthood, that it was the most deliberate of decisions, undertaken only by women who were serious and dedicated in their quest to be mothers.
Gail Honeyman
#64. There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care and artistry are worth the trouble. They can be a satisfaction to the practitioner and a joy to all beholders.
Helen Nearing
#65. The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt
#66. In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
Albert Einstein
#67. I never cared, I was careless,
Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless.
Or fear bein' fearless but fearful,
So even in my carelessness ... gotta be careful.
Joe Budden
#68. Phaedra shook her head. If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.
Melina Marchetta
#69. Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
William Merritt Chase
#70. Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
Pythagoras
#71. There will always be those memories that tie us together, those invisible strings. The careless stitches of mother and daughter. Suddenly
Lisa Wingate
#72. Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.
Marcus Brigstocke
#73. If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.
Alfred Austin
#74. Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.
Corita Kent
#75. Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.
Gautama Buddha
#76. [Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.
Woody Allen
#77. Boys were careless. It was a wonder any ever grew up to be men.
Stephen King
#78. With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.
Robert Bringhurst
#79. We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.
Catherine Crook De Camp
#80. They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.
Augustus William Hare
