Neglect Quotes

A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney

Family, Business

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius

Book, Attention, Books

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington

Nothing, Another, Service

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Business, Devotion, Calls

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
Kenny Guinn

Best, Children, Service

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling

Often, Dislike, Damage

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-Powell

Try, Fail, Duty

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Truth, True

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Live, Choice

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Colin Powell

Mind, Leader, Everyone

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men, Mean, Since

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes

Music, Others, While

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

Makes, Necessary, Repair

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Music, Limit, Explore

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Good, Women, Men

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
Tom Harkin

Health, Crisis, Care

Neglect of appearance becomes men.
Ovid

Men, Appearance, Becomes

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Rose Kennedy

Business, Lost, Through

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
Lord Chesterfield

Time, Same, Sense

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Work, Peace, Single

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
Havelock Ellis

Beautiful, Rock, Hard

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
Alfred Adler

Patient, Symptoms

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt

Home, Children, Cannot

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Pearl S. Buck

Before, Wanted, Child

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
Benjamin Carson

Faith, Mind, Why

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
James C. Dobson

Children, Giving, Give

It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.
James Buchan

Time, End, Help

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Time, Problem, Value

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.
Alan Dershowitz

Truth, Care, Talk

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
Malcolm Turnbull

Marriage, Honest, Few

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