Neglect Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Children, Believe, Abuse

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• Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vices, Revolution, Courageous

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.311, e-artnow

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• 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

  4th Of July, Army, Numbers

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1777). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.359

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• I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thinking, Knowing, People

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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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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• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

  William James

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 2, ch. 22

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• Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.

  Thomas Brooks

  Father, Vanity, Years

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.144

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• If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

  Dalai Lama

  Focus, Humanity, Gains

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• Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
  [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Luxury, Vices

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• In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Health, Brain, Half

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• We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

  Pliny the Elder

  Eye, Afar, Pursue

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• Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.

  Garrison Keillor

  Calling, Relentless, Be Good

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• 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

  Men, Differences, Laughing

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.135

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• When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

  Pat Schneider

  Creativity, Artist, Mourning

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Numbers, Selfishness

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.44, Aristotle

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• The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Children, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

  Epictetus

  Power, Suffering, Trying

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• We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Angel, Men, Good Man

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• Living a lie - pretending everything is fine when we are
  actually discontented - is hard work and, in the long run, even bad for our health. We pay a high price
  for compromising on this honesty - and neglecting ourselves. Finding our inner passion, our mission
  in life, and connecting with who we really are, our spiritual being or our higher self - this is the key to success and fulfilment. Our 'soul' purpose is our sole purpose in life.

  Kristiane Backer

  Running, Spiritual, Honesty

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  How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

  Jonathan Edwards

  Forever, Forsake, Ifs

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, Reformation Heritage Books

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• Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

  Bell Hooks

  Opposites, Abuse, Foundation

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• Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay.

  Thucydides

  Selfish, Thinking, Issues

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• 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

  Iraq, Southern, Kashmir

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• It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused or neglected.

  Paul Begala

  Children, Way, Sometimes

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• Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

  Anna Gavalda

  Stronger, Life Is, Deny

  Anna Gavalda (2005). “Someone I Loved”, p.80, Penguin

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