Top 79 Neglects Quotes
#1. A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.
Kristin Cashore
#2. Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.
Auguste Rodin
#3. He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#4. I never trust a man who tucks in his shirt by choice or neglects coffee in favor of tea.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#6. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
#7. A farmer who neglects to sow ordinary seeds only loses the crop, whereas anyone who forgets to sow seeds of a crop that has already been harvested twelve months before risks disturbing the entire fabric of causality, not to mention acute embarrassment.
Terry Pratchett
#8. Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
Samuel Johnson
#9. It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.
Selma Fraiberg
#10. He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#11. Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.
Lord Byron
#12. You never hear someone called beautiful who neglects themselves.
Toni Sorenson
#13. Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both
Aesop
#14. A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei
#15. Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!
Alphonsus Liguori
#16. If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.
Sterling W. Sill
#17. The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.
Michael Kenny
#18. Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good ... it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.
Thomas Aquinas
#19. He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.
Li Bai
#20. Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.
Dalai Lama
#21. 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
#22. A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
Edgar Saltus
#23. An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.
Charles Baudelaire
#24. A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
Sophocles
#25. All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#26. The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#27. Even if I have a good day, I still am aware of other people that are going through really hard, tumultuous things. I don't want to be the person who has a platform and neglects the things I see in my life and experiences.
Christian Scott
#28. If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Plato
#29. Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
Loren Eiseley
#30. Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#31. I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make much use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon.
Dwight L. Moody
#32. The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.
Dorothy Nevill
#33. The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius
#34. Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#35. When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.
Maya Angelou
#36. I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.
John Gresham Machen
#37. We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.
Ezra Taft Benson
#38. Perhaps our vision of how life should be is actually no fun at all, and neglects to include the exciting people we have yet to meet, who make the stupid ways life seems to happen, happy after all.
Sheila Heti
#39. I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn't yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.
Will.i.am
#40. Our Beasts and our Thieves and our Chattels
Have weight for good or for ill;
But the Poor are only His image,
His presence, His word, His will; -
And so Lazarus lies at our doorstep
And Dives neglects him still.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#41. Any nation that neglects teaching the sacredness of life and the family does so at its own peril. Any nation that sanctions the removal of God's boundaries will destroy its own.
Ravi Zacharias
#42. The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.
Umar
#43. If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.
T.F. Hodge
#44. Physical diseases, engendered in the vices and neglects of men, will seize on victims of all degrees; and the frightful moral disorder, born of unspeakable suffering, intolerable oppression, and heartless indifference, smote equally without distinction.
Charles Dickens
#45. When we justify a flaw we are actually inventing a new one. When a woman neglects developing her own character, she not only chisels away her own reputation, but the reputation of everyone in her household.
pg 48
Michael Ben Zehabe
#47. It is a note
Of upstart greatness to observe and watch
For these poor trifles, which the noble mind
Neglects and scorns.
Ben Jonson
#48. Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Sophocles
#49. He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.
John Calvin
#50. Right here and now the great work of character-building is to be done, and whoever neglects present opportunities, looking forward to a future heaven for better conditions, is pulling right away from the kingdom of heaven within himself.
Charles Fillmore
#51. The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
Edgar Allan Poe
#52. The lines are careful. They reveal he pays attention. People don't think he does, because he daydreams and skips class and neglects his homework, but when I see his drawings, I know they're wrong.
Stephanie Perkins
#53. When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout.
Sun Tzu
#54. Among the hard lessons which varying Fortune teaches to those whom she most neglects, there is none so useful as self-control.
Emmuska Orczy
#55. One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
Mahavira
#56. The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.
Henry Clay
#57. Driven living makes us the center of our well-planned schedules. It may stem from a passion to live with eternal purpose, but it signifies that we believe God's work depends on us and neglects to acknowledge that God created us as finite resources dependent upon Him.
Paul Chappell
#58. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, "Thou art my refuge.
George MacDonald
#59. For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#61. Tolstoy carelessly neglects to include a boat race.
Mark Twain
#62. Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.
Thomas A Kempis
#63. 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.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#64. Nursing is more than a career; it is a calling. Nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects them.
Alexandra Robbins
#65. I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.
George Crumb
#66. No matter how advanced its progress, any generation that neglects its spiritual and moral life is going to disintegrate.
Billy Graham
#67. Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.
Tupac Shakur
#68. Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.
Frank Farrington
#69. The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.
Confucius
#70. A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives.
There is probably no use in telling this to people who can't see it without being told.
Ezra Pound
#71. The man who recognizes the truth of any human relation and neglects the duty involved is not a true man.... A man may be aware of the highest truths of many things, and yet not be a true man, inasmuch as the essentials of manhood are not his aim: he has not come into the flower of his own being.
George MacDonald
#72. Male passivity is a disease that robs a man of his purpose while it destroys marriages, ruins families, and spoils legacies. A passive man doesn't engage; he retreats. He neglects personal responsibility. At its core, passivity is cowardice.
Dennis Rainey
#73. Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny.
Nadia Janice Brown
#74. The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. I think it would be really rotten to tell boys that schools won't cater for them properly because men have unquestionably been dominant for thousands of years. A feminism that deliberately neglects boys is immoral in my opinion.
Kristina Schroder
#77. The gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#78. Support our troops!" we cry, but I say, "Love our veterans!" And when he neglects church, take him cookies anyway. Sing him a song. Pet his cat.
Chila Woychik
#79. To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.
Henry Latham Doherty
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