Neglect is the act of disregarding or failing to pay attention to something or someone. Many quotes about neglect emphasize its negative impact on relationships and personal growth. They highlight how neglect can lead to feelings of abandonment, loneliness, and despair. These quotes often serve as reminders to be mindful of the people and things that matter in our lives, so as to avoid the consequences of neglect.
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. — Richard Whately
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. — Jim Cathcart
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself. — William James
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. — Tacitus
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. — Evelyn Underhill
Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature. — John Stott
We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination. — Derek Parfit
Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church. — Charles Spurgeon
Short Neglected Quotes
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here? — Jonathan Edwards
A man should never neglect his family for business. — Walt Disney
Hell is Truth Seen Too Late. — Thomas Hobbes
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. — Harriet Tubman
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer. — William Wilberforce
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. — J. C. Ryle
Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. — Scottish Proverbs
May neighbours respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and Heaven accept you. — Irish Proverbs
May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you — Drake
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Child Neglect Quotes
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
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
By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors. — Gerald Durrell
I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery. — John Bradshaw
Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United Sates. It was estimated that 2001,903,000 children were the victims of child abuse or neglect. Child abuse is a crime perpetrated on the innocent and the defenseless. — Pete Domenici
The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children. — Richard Linklater
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting. — Gloria Steinem
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse. — Tatum O'Neal
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. — Pearl Buck
My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. — Ivy Baker Priest
Don't Neglect Quotes
It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. — J. Oswald Sanders
Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain. — Theodore Holmes Bullock
Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved. — LeCrae
Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work. — Oswald Chambers
Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints. — Josemaria Escriva
Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today. — Aesop
How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it? — Ellen Goodman
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive. — Oscar Wilde
I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look in their eyes. Their chances for enlightenment are very small, unless they change the way they live. — Frederick Lenz
People don't die of old age, they die of neglect. — Jack LaLanne
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. — Rutherford B. Hayes
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. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. — Colin Powell
Our children are humans and deserve to be treated respectfully. Discipline doesn’t include raging, screaming, abusing, neglecting, humiliating, or shaming our kids. God never treats us like that. That sort of discipline never “produces a harvest of righteousness and peace. — Sayings
I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make much use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon. — Dwight L. Moody
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up. — James C. Dobson
Doing is never enough if you neglect Being. — Eckhart Tolle
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn. — Joan D. Chittister
Love Neglect Quotes
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery. — Alexander Pushkin
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
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. — William Shakespeare
If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring. — John Flavel
God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you. — Girolamo Savonarola
Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. — Euripides
If you love someone and they reject and neglect, you gotta move on, there's no point running in circles for someone when there's no reward. — Shannon Leto
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. — Jeanette Winterson
Self Neglect Quotes
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within. — Adi Shankara
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. — James A. Froude
Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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
Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect. — Jim Rohn
The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford. — Portia de Rossi
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. — James Anthony Froude
When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists and even many, I think, overly enthusiastic anarchists have neglected that self. — Murray Bookchin
If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained. — Ian Somerhalder
It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self. — Richard Steele
Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman. — Malcolm X
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence. — Coretta Scott King
All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn? — Paul Washer
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
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. — William Penn
Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it — Roald Amundsen
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. — Noah Webster
No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all. — Saint John Chrysostom
A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes. — Zachary Taylor
I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away. — Harriet Tubman
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. — John Locke
A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church. — Charles Spurgeon
Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected. — Oswald J. Smith
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor. — A. Philip Randolph
Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned. — Donald Trump
Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and rash advance, but must take care to forge close links between the progressive elements and the broad masses. This is what thinking in terms of the majority means. — Mao Zedong
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights. — David Harvey
the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes. — Oswald Mosley
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Saint Augustine
The good procrastinator accepts the fact that she can’t get everything done, then decides as wisely as possible what tasks to focus on and what to neglect. — Oliver Burkeman
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ. — David Wilkerson
Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion. — Anton Szandor LaVey
You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been. — Frank Mir
The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things. — Oliver Burkeman
People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down. — Esther Perel
There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations. — Lady Bird Johnson
Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states. — Amartya Sen
Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. — John Doolittle
In Conclusion
Quotes about neglect also shed light on the importance of taking responsibility for our actions and choices. They encourage individuals to recognize the harmful effects of neglect and to make a conscious effort to prioritize and nurture the things that are valuable to them. These quotes serve as a wake-up call to avoid neglecting our loved ones, our goals, and our own well-being, as they are vital aspects of a fulfilling and meaningful life.
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