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A man should never neglect his family for business. -- Walt Disney
Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. -- Jim Rohn
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. -- Richard Whately
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. -- J. K. Rowling
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. -- Rose Kennedy
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. -- Tom Harkin
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. -- Colin Powell
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. -- Pearl S. Buck
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
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
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
Neglect of appearance becomes men. -- Ovid
Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them. -- Benjamin Franklin
Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing. -- Arthur Currie
Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one. -- Benjamin Franklin
Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two! -- Ed Blackwell
Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church. -- Charles Spurgeon
Neglect is a major reason for some of the most painful experiences we suffer in life. -- Sunday Adelaja
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. -- Jeanette Winterson
I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me. -- Lisa Genova
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime. -- Aristotle
One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease. -- Jim Rohn
Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die. -- Suzy Kassem
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times. -- Benjamin Whichcote
O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride; O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell; O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside; O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell. -- Thomas Chatterton
To become greater in anything you can do, prepare to be a rejecter of everything that you cannot do. Neglect whatever activities that do not contribute to your success and you will never regret the path you select! -- Israelmore Ayivor
He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die. -- Owen Feltham
Adore man, the adoration reaches Me. Neglect man; you neglect Me. Of what avail is it to worship the Lord and to suppress man, His counterpart on earth? Love for God must be manifested as Love for man, and Love must express itself as service. -- Sathya Sai Baba
If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy. -- Roger Bacon
A little neglect may breed great mischief. -- Benjamin Franklin
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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. -- James Anthony Froude
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. -- Alfred Adler
May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you -- Drake
The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect. -- Jeremy Paxman
Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life. -- Sathya Sai Baba
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. -- Robert Baden-Powell
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services. -- Joe Baca
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
I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it. -- Hosni Mubarak
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
People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall. -- Ian Goldin
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. -- Jeffrey Sachs
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
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
One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families. -- Victoria Osteen
Parents who neglect their children, who don't know where they are, who don't know what they're doing, who don't know who they're hanging out with, you're gonna find yourselves spending some quality time with your kids, in jail, together. -- Michael Nutter
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. -- Alexander Fleming
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. -- Ronald Fisher
When I took office, Liberia began to recover from years of neglect. Our people have brought clean water into the heart of Monrovia to children who have never known water from a tap. Efforts are underway to expand water projects as much as possible throughout the country. -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together. -- Landon Donovan
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
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
All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself. -- Joseph P. Bradley
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck. -- James Altucher
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. -- Ann Voskamp
Dynamic benign neglect. -- Bob Weir
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. -- William Jones
A prudent man should neglect no circumstances. -- Sophocles
Life is once so do right neglect wrongs. -- Wiz Khalifa
I cannot neglect prayer for a single day. -- Martin Luther
Doing is never enough if you neglect Being. -- Eckhart Tolle
Lost are many great commissions by such neglect. -- James Wyatt
As women, we cannot afford to neglect ourselves. -- Michelle Obama
Don't neglect your heart, it needs attention too. -- R. Alan Woods
The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect. -- David Benioff
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. -- J. C. Ryle
Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature. -- John Stott
People become depressed when they neglect their spiritual practice. -- Dharma Mittra
I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect. -- Barry Humphries
A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect. -- Stevie Nicks
Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard. -- Ben Okri
My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought. -- Thomas Eakins
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. -- St. Jerome
The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness. -- John Wesley
People don't die of old age, they die of neglect. -- Jack LaLanne
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. -- Samuel Johnson
Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints. -- Josemaria Escriva
One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort. -- Ibn Hazm
If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time. -- Debra Hamel
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect. -- Paul Theroux
If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us ... -- Constance Fenimore Woolson
Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset. -- Napoleon Hill
Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming. -- Ovid
You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process. -- Warren Buffett
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! -- Edgar Allan Poe
Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values. -- Russell Brand
No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect. -- John Addison
The royal hound's belly demands rubbing. Step lively, humans, neglect me not." ~Oberon -- Kevin Hearne
The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying. -- Myles Munroe
Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future. -- T.A. Uner
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people. -- William Greider
Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless. -- Chuck Palahniuk
More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest. -- Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message. -- Dawn Angelique
My dad's full of encouragement and support. It just feels like abandonment and neglect. -- Christopher Titus
We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination. -- Derek Parfit
Those who neglect the demands of life, they live in perpetual pain and regret. -- Sunday Adelaja
You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause. -- Ralph Marston
The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live. -- Luc de Clapiers
The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling. -- Fred Hollows
Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher. -- Ronald Reagan
Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why. -- Gene Simmons

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