Neglect Quotes

• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  J. K. Rowling

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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• A little neglect may breed great mischief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Teacher, May, Littles

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.288, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

  Voltaire

  Regret, Loss, Men

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• Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved.

  LeCrae

  Use

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• Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

  Jim Rohn

  Wise, Entrepreneur, Words Of Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 24, 2017

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• You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

  Ralph Marston

  Causes, Effects

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• We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Military, Trying, Failing

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• The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

  Fred Hollows

  Leadership, Community, Suffering

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• Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

  Owen Feltham

  Soul, Rust, Resolve

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

  William Penn

  Kindness, World, Quaker

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  Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Philosophy, Too Late

  Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."

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

  Richard Whately

  Wise, Wisdom, Rebuilding

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.71

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

  Rose Kennedy

  Business, Educational, Reality

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• Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

  Og Mandino

  Responsibility, Cutting, Thinking

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.102, Bantam

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• If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Self Esteem, Passion

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• It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Men, Effectiveness

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.229

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• 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

  Clever, Opportunity, Men

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• May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you

  Drake

  Friendship, Family, Angel

  "Shot for Me". Song by Drake, 2011.

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  A man should never neglect his family for business.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Family, Inspiring

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• 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, Fake People, Practice

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• 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, Work, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.40, Cooper Square Press

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• If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.

  Noah Webster

  Happiness, Failure, Men

  Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

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• I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Overcoming

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

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Mind, Details

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  Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Euripides (1931). “Four plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, & Iphigeneia among the Taurians”, Stanford University Press

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