Top 105 Carelessness Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.
With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.
Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.
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.
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.
To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.
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.
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.
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.
Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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 . . .
Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.
Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.
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.
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.
All deaths before the age of 100 are accidental, caused by carelessness or thoughtlessness.
I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.
There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.
Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.
More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.
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.
Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.
If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive.
For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any moment on the earth--who do not 'look before and after, and pine for what is not,' but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.
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.
The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.
I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.
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.
Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.
The greatest sin is carelessness.
Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
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.
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.
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.
... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.
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.
During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
... 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.
I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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.
Panic leads to carelessness, and carelessness creates accidents.
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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.
