Carelessness Quotes

• When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, People, Revival

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Attention, Pay

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• Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doe, Want, Harm

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• Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

  James Anthony Froude

  Merit, Inevitable, Sequence

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• Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

  Albert Einstein

  Trust, Leadership, Truth

  "Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

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• The greatest sin is carelessness.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Sin, Shortcomings

  "Playboy Interview: Linda Ronstadt". Interview with Jean Vallely, www.ronstadt-linda.com. April, 1980.

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• The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

  M. Scott Peck

  Ignorance, Pride, Evil

  M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.302, Random House

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• Panic leads to carelessness, and carelessness creates accidents.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Panic, Accidents

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.34, Scholastic UK

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

  LeCrae

  Use

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• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Sarcastic

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

  Rick Warren

  Strong, Commitment, Self

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• I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.

  David Levithan

  Trying, Careful, Persons

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• Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

  Honore de Balzac

  Suicide, Moral, Dressings

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• When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

  Luis Palau

  Men, Confusion, Stronger

  Luis Palau (1986). “So You Want to Grow”

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

  Jane Austen

  Humility, Deceit, Appearance

  Jane Austen, John Halperin (1975). “Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, Lying, World

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.67

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• More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

  Harry Vardon

  Causes, Lost

  Harry Vardon (2001). “The Complete Golfer”, p.163, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

  Emily Browning

  People, Danger, Young

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• By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

  William Osler

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.369, Duke University Press

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• Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Nature, Science

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.221, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Humility, Hype

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Confused, People, Confusion

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  America, Care, I Care

  Andrew O'Hagan (2010). “The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, People, Inattention

  Daniel WEBSTER (1860). “The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of D. W.; the Declaration of Independence; and Washington's Farewell Address, Etc”, p.259

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• There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Mistake, Men, Hands

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.23, Lulu.com

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