Top 100 Neglecting Quotes
#1. What fools the public were! They were exactly like sheep ... thought Mr. Abbott sleepily ... following each other's lead, neglecting one book and buying another just because other people were buying it, although, for the life of you, you couldn't see what the one lacked and the other possessed.
D.E. Stevenson
#2. 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 the surrounding puppets.
Edith Wharton
#3. Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.
Ingrid Weir
#4. I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
Joshua Slocum
#5. We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.
Edward Burnett Tylor
#6. That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl
Diana Gabaldon
#7. A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.
Fennel Hudson
#8. 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.
Stephen Furst
#9. There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should eat the food, you should listen to the music, you should be proud. And when you don't do those things, some people will look at it as if you're neglecting who you are.
Selenis Leyva
#10. The only God who can lead you out of trouble when you are pursuing your dreams is the one who gave you that assignment. Neglecting him from your plans is tantamount to commitment of suicide.
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.
Coretta Scott King
#12. Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#13. Show me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something.
John F. Kennedy
#14. Neglecting passion blocks creative flow. When you're passionate, you're energized. Likewise, when you lack passion, your energy is low and unproductive. Energy is everything when it comes to being successful.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#15. For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.
William Benton Clulow
#16. Neglecting to ask God's counsel, neglecting to seek God's timing, you step in to *handle* things. And by and by, you've got a mess on your hands.
Charles R. Swindoll
#17. Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.
Joshua Bell
#18. It's through neglecting all other values to bring the customer the lowest price that Wal-Mart ended up with such a horrible sex discrimination problem, but that model produces lots and lots of other problems as well, which I think are possibly going to be more difficult to fix.
Liza Featherstone
#19. If your life is like a tragedy it is because you have been neglecting something - most likely yourself.
Bryant McGill
#20. Some wag remarked that the worst dust storm in history would happen if all church members who were neglecting their Bibles dusted them off simultaneously.
Donald S. Whitney
#21. Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.
K.P. Yohannan
#22. Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
Nancy Gibbs
#23. Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence.
Alija Izetbegovic
#24. The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.
Dave Mearns
#25. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
Epictetus
#26. 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 contained in the Bible.
Noah Webster
#27. The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
Matthew Lesko
#28. I'm a huge video gamer, sometimes a little too much. I'll shut myself in my room just so I can play video games all day and I end up neglecting my friends.
Lucas Till
#29. 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
#30. Of course, in philosophy, you settle one bill only by neglecting another, a strategy which must eventually fail since all of them fall due at the same time.
William H Gass
#31. The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.
Iris Apfel
#32. The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.
James Ellis
#33. I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger
Jen Campbell
#34. It is sad to see anyone neglecting their body no matter who they are and what they do. You simply cannot be healthy or look great on the outside if you are not healthy on the inside.
Miranda Kerr
#35. Tumble me down, and I will sit
Upon my ruines (smiling yet
Teare me to tatters; yet I'le be
Patient in my necessitie.
Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shun
Me, as a fear'd infection:
Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,
Neglecting thy derision.
Robert Herrick
#36. Substituting formal reading instruction for read-alouds is like showing a child how to grow flowers by providing a hoe to dig holes but neglecting to provide the seeds or to take the time to watch those seeds grow.
Steven L. Layne
#38. I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind.
William Shakespeare
#39. When any of our faculties retains
a strong impression of delight or pain,
the soul will wholly concentrate on that,
neglecting any other power it has;
and thus, when something seen
or heard secures the soul in stringent grip,
time moves and yet we do not notice it.
Dante Alighieri
#40. The same people neglecting and hating are the ones going through issues in their own lives, and they're scared to face that.
Dawn Angelique
#41. People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
Keith Henson
#42. The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.
Wolfgang Schauble
#43. People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.
Julian Baggini
#44. The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.
Linus Torvalds
#45. After a generation of misrule under Mr. Hussein, who built a huge military infrastructure while neglecting civilian investment, and a dozen years of United Nations sanctions, Iraq's unemployment rate tops 50 percent.
Alex Berenson
#46. It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.
J. William Fulbright
#47. Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and neglecting that which could give spiritual and intellectual unity to his whole life.
Ezra Taft Benson
#48. People try to build their identity around external things such as appearance and the clothes at the expense of neglecting the inner values of who they really are
Sunday Adelaja
#49. I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.
Nelson Mandela
#50. Ignoring your subconscious is like neglecting the termite infestation in your basement. Sooner or later, the consequences of neglect will far outweigh the momentary unpleasantness of clearing the nests.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#51. If a person starts neglecting the blessings of God and takes all God has given him as his own, then pride is inevitable
Sunday Adelaja
#52. None of us can judge, we have no idea what it was like. You've spent your life devoted to someone else and neglecting yourself.
Adam Dennis
#53. It's always important to draw a line somewhere in a respectful way where you're still approachable, you're still there for the people and meeting them halfway, but you're not neglecting your own duties and your own time to rejuvenate to be able to do it again.
Chuck Ragan
#54. Why is it that some young folks are almost overly conscientious in their school work, even to neglecting their Church responsibilities, when the spiritual should have priority in the study time of every person if preference must be given? However, there is time for fulfilling every need.
Spencer W. Kimball
#55. By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.
Gerald Durrell
#56. It's deceiving but true that we rarely see any immediate consequences for neglecting a single installment of time in any arena of life. But if neglect becomes your pattern, you will eventually bump up against our third principle: 3. Neglect has a cumulative effect. You
Andy Stanley
#58. Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
Alexandra David-Neel
#59. I've been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect "forever" that I'm completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway.
Daria Snadowsky
#60. You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup.
Joy Behar
#61. 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 one of the least.
George Whitefield
#62. Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time.
Eric Liddell
#63. We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will.
Ashton Kutcher
#64. Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?
George Saunders
#65. I also learned what I and many other wives were doing wrong. We were neglecting ourselves. We were born women yet were taking care of our roles as mom, employee or wife before we took care of ourselves. But in order to adequately fulfill those roles, we have to put ourselves first.
Elona Washington
#66. As power and responsibility become ever more separated, those with power will act in an increasingly irresponsible fashion, perhaps even neglecting the very source of their power. Why should they not? Surely, they think, their power lies apart from any responsibility.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#67. If you're eating poorly, neglecting your health, or living a high-stress lifestyle, you're depleting your inner resources. That will make it difficult to maintain the energy you need to participate fully and actively in your life.
Lauren Mackler
#68. Procrastinators are pros at neglecting now and languishing later.
Ryan Lilly
#69. [Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people.
George W. Bush
#70. She so cheerfully resigned to his neglecting her that he could not help opening his mouth to protest
Susanna Clarke
#71. I want to tell you about your heart - you've probably been neglecting your heart - and you don't know.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#72. I may be wrong, but it seems that there may be some unraveling of the American tapestry. I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing".
Richard Paul Evans
#73. So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
Jeffery Deaver
#74. A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard Whately
#75. Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
Paul Bloom
#76. if-then" rewards usually do more harm than good. By neglecting the ingredients of genuine motivation - autonomy, mastery, and purpose - they limit what each of us can achieve.
Daniel H. Pink
#77. You are not so good a Christian when you are neglecting a plain duty as when you are performing it. And joining the church is a plain duty for all who mean to be Christians.
Washington Gladden
#78. Get your life. Because while you are neglecting yourself for whatever cause, that is exactly what everyone else is doing -- children, spouse, co-workers, etc.
Holland Meissner
#79. We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
John F. Kennedy
#80. When I began my career as a writer I thought it would be fun to put my imagination to the page. Now I am finding out that my imagination is able to fill in those pesky holes called details all on its own, and then neglecting to tell me how it did it.
Jonathan Bender
#81. He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual.
Gillian Flynn
#82. Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.
John Calvin
#83. The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.
Rudolf Arnheim
#84. There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#85. People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
E.W. Howe
#86. I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
Bertolt Brecht
#87. Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.
Napoleon Hill
#88. The Congress' name of 'INC' must be changed to 'Institutions Neglecting Congress'. Their habit is to misuse, abuse and reduce institutions.
Narendra Modi
#89. Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
Floyd Skloot
#90. America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world.
Nicholas Sparks
#91. At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.
Beatrice Webb
#92. When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds.
Bryant McGill
#93. It would be wise to be concerned about the introvert who is deprived of solitude. Is she neglecting herself due to depression? Is she falling victim to guilt and self-reproach? Does she feel cut off from pleasure? Does she feel dead?
Laurie A. Helgoe
#94. People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.
Jules Romains
#95. Our children are humans and deserve to be treated respectfully. Discipline doesn't include raging, screaming, abusing, neglecting, humiliating, or shaming our kids. God never treats us like that. That sort of discipline never produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.
Jen Hatmaker
#97. Life is a playground and a laboratory; avoid neglecting one for the other.
T.F. Hodge
#98. 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. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
David Wilkerson
#99. Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.
John Doolittle
#100. Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.
Martha Wainwright
