Quotes about Carelessness

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide. Votes: 5

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence. Votes: 5

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. Votes: 5

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have. Votes: 5

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep. Votes: 4

More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause. Votes: 4

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose. Votes: 4

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. Votes: 4

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. Votes: 4

Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness. Votes: 3

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit. Votes: 3

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous. Votes: 3

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Votes: 3

If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it. Votes: 3

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. Votes: 3

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. Votes: 3

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion. Votes: 3

Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already. Votes: 3

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit. Votes: 3

Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale. Votes: 3

We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure. Votes: 3

It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight. Votes: 3

It matters whether you see yourself as someone who is capable of effecting change or whether you see yourself as someone whose voice does not count. It matters whether you treat yourself with reverence or with carelessness. Every bit of work you do on yourself matters. Every time you choose love, it matters. Votes: 3

And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that. Votes: 3

Overconfidence precedes carelessness. Votes: 1

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness. Votes: 1

Wape watoto uhuru wa mahesabu, lakini si uhuru wa shaghalabaghala. Votes: 1

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight. Votes: 1

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations. Votes: 1

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness. Votes: 1

when someone says "I don't care" it's because he cares, strongly so Votes: 1

The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind. Votes: 1

I'm so careless that now i don't even care if i cared about you. Votes: 1

I'm so careless that now i don't even care if i cared for you. Votes: 1

Being cautious ain't merely look after myself, but also keep me away from others' carelessness. Votes: 1

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not. Votes: 1

When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education. Votes: 1

The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play. Votes: 1

Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness. Votes: 1

Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases. Votes: 1

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression. Votes: 1

If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance. Votes: 1

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive. Votes: 1

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself. Votes: 1

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon. Votes: 1

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind. Votes: 1

Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads. Votes: 1

the greatest sin is carelessness. Votes: 0

Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness. Votes: 0

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness. Votes: 0

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness. Votes: 0

All deaths before the age of 100 are accidental, caused by carelessness or thoughtlessness. Votes: 0

how do I become like this? by carelessness,and lack of knowledge about me. Votes: 0

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. Votes: 0

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself. Votes: 0

I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional. Votes: 0

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. Votes: 0

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous. Votes: 0

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. Votes: 0

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures. Votes: 0

Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. Votes: 0

No; they nearly drowned you, and not even on purpose but only through carelessness. I am not letting them have you back," Temeraire said." Votes: 0

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence. Votes: 0

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever. Votes: 0

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness. Votes: 0

The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy. Votes: 0

While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible. Votes: 0

It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear. Votes: 0

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought. Votes: 0

I never cared, I was careless, Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless. Or fear bein' fearless but fearful, So even in my carelessness...gotta be careful. Votes: 0

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both. Votes: 0

The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions. Votes: 0

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . . Votes: 0

An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama. Votes: 0

Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks? Votes: 0

The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets. Votes: 0