Neglect Quotes

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
A man should never neglect his family for business. View quote
Walt Disney
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. View quote
Colin Powell
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. View quote
Richard Whately
The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the annals of Heaven. View quote
James Madison
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. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
To neglect, at any time, preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege to omit it in old age, is to sleep At an attack. (Samuel Johnson)
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. View quote
J. K. Rowling
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him. View quote
Charles Cooley
The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect. View quote
Jeremy Paxman
The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory. View quote
Yukio Mishima
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. View quote
John Donne
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this – to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse. (Lucian)
We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever. View quote
Jennifer Beals
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. View quote
William Penn
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there.My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought. View quote
Thomas Eakins
A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect. View quote
Stevie Nicks