“life and death are in the power of the tongue. If you lend credence to a continual onslaught of negativity, whether self-inflicted… — John Herrick Copy Share Image
“Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist -… — N.C. Thomas Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the motivator of today's world, kindness is the reality of yesterday's world, empowerment is our de faux of tomorrows world. — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can… — Lester Frank Ward Copy Share Image
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I… — John Grant Copy Share Image
More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“Cultural pessimism is always fashionable, and since we are human, there are always grounds for it. It has the negative consequence of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“After that exercise, the ship of my life might or might not be sailing on calm seas. The challenging days of my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The psychologists have a term — emotional contagion. When other people are acting a certain way around you, you tend to absorb… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are certain reactions that you aren't allowed to show in Berlin, for example that you feel offended. If you do, the… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“As you think a thought, it goes out into the ethers, where it gathers energy and then returns to you. It parallels… — Dianne Robbins Copy Share Image
I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“When you travel mentally from a low point to a high point, the ensuing inspiration eclipses the negativity of the initial downfall.” — Raoul Davis Jr Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Winston Churchill once quipped, “The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” He went… — William Ury Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
So I was looking up quotes. Many clicked the thumbs up symbol. When only few clicked the thumbs down. It made me… — Rocco Rippolone Copy Share Image
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Disaster is around the corner. It is, it's lurking, it's incredibly negative. Am I thinking about the bad times ahead? Jesus, no.… — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The amount of negativity I hear on a daily basis is unbelievable. But that's the kind of stuff you have to tune… — Dana White Copy Share Image
The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current… — Donna Quesada Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't start something because of fear because they're scared of a negative outcome. Whereas I believe if you… — Anthony Yarde Copy Share Image
I feel positive about what I do. And, whoever is doing reggae, they have to have positive words and no negativity. They… — Toots Hibbert Copy Share Image
“How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem awful make me feel any better? You mean I could… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
DISREGARD AND REPLACE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS WITH POSITIVE ONES. EVEN IF YOU STARTED THINKING SOMETHING PESSIMISTIC , JUST TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
