Quotes about Neglect
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.
— Herman Melville
The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.
— George Washington
Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon