A Quote by Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

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Duty Interest Left More Neglect Self Self-Interest Than Things Through Undone

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Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
January 11, 1747 - March 27, 1827

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Rose Kennedy

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I use my platform for more than just myself. Art is a reflection of human emotions. To neglect the political is to neglect what essentially is your job of storytelling. I would rather be known for the content of my character than for the project that I did.

Zendaya

If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.

Yasmin Mogahed

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

Socrates

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'm more about mind over muscle. My mindset needs to be the fittest, because it drags my body through whatever needs to be done. A lot of people neglect training their mind and their self-belief, but I believe that's crucial.

Ant Middleton

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

Sophie Swetchine

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

Jean de la Bruyere

Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two!

Ed Blackwell

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

Jim Rohn

It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Martin Luther

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.