If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity. Always be positive. — Jeramae Panabia Copy Share Image
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw.” — Maloy Krishna Dhar Copy Share Image
One thing that makes a dream impossible for us to achieve is the fear of failure. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy. — Antanas Mockus Copy Share Image
“Keep shining bright, even when others try to dim your light. Their negativity is just a reflection of their own insecurities.” — G.K. Dutta Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Choosing to live a life in a cynical negative matter, doubting every opportunity, and doubting every God-given ability that you possess, is… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
All of this tragedy and hatred going on in the world right now, and a bunch of low life people just keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Negativity is contagious. Life the flu, or some snotty, head-pounding cold. That’s why it’s best to keep a good distance from negative… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“All transitions involve leaving a consolidated self behind before any new self can take its place. At the 4-5 shift this means… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“But regardless of his motive, words can be destructive. As Proverbs 18:21 points out, life and death are in the power of… — John Herrick Copy Share Image
“Never Doubt Yourself, Everything Happens for a Reason When we look back on our lives and think honestly about everything we have… — Jan Jansen Easy Branches Copy Share Image
...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair… — John Piper Copy Share Image
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“All our philosophy starts from a false base; it begins always by considering man as an individual, and not as he should… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“I think it's better if you rely on the fact you belong together, instead of having to reinvent your togetherness every day.… — Eva Heller Copy Share Image
As you take a few minutes each day to quiet your mind, you will discover a nice benefit: your everyday, ordinary life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace. — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.” — Mollie Marti Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it. — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life. — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is—in essence—a closet pessimist.” — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
“motivation to perform well and pessimistic expectations are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they seem to get along famously.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image