Negligence Quotes

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
Adam Smith

Fear, Real, Losing

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Ben Jonson

Success, Confidence, Reputation

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.
John Olver

Body, Almost, Level

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham

Best, Through, Soul

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.
Reince Priebus

Change, Hope, Political

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
Anthony Zinni

War, True, Corruption

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Thomas Sprat

Life, Great, Married

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