Neglect Quotes

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it.

Children measure their own life by the reaction, and if purring and humming (are) not noticed, they begin to squeal; if that is neglected, to screech; then, if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms if you do nothing, contented; but […]

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother’s Day.

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.