Negative Quotes

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If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The… — Vishnudevananda Saraswati
For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is… — Peter McWilliams
Not every bad break is negative in the long term; not every problem is a bona fide injustice; and not every injustice is major when… — Robert Ringer
With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is… — Dalai Lama
One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your… — Dalai Lama
All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We… — Jack Canfield
Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you… — Norman Cousins
Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our… — Michael Josephson
It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. — Shirley MacLaine
Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good. — Radhanath Swami
Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them. — Georgette Mosbacher
Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons. — Eugene Jarecki
I think at the end of the day, the real sick man of Europe is liable to turn out to be France, not Greece, not… — Wilbur Ross
There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy - and if my voice counts, I will be vocal. — Shirin Neshat
I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive.… — Srikumar Rao
I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive. — Sonia Sotomayor
First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you… — Kate del Castillo
I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself. — Lin Shaye

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