Negative Quotes

2291 Negative quotes by 1417 unique authors

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries… — Paul Brunton
Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action… — Dalai Lama
What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say — Wystan Hugh Auden
The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and… — Bell Hooks
We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an… — Thomas S. Monson
So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because… — Gwen Cooper
…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not… — Bell Hooks
Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You… — Tom Stoppard
Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze… — Maya Banks
Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and… — Jeannette Walls
Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are… — Christopher Pike
Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all… — Bell Hooks
I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy… — John Green
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. — Malcolm X
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined… — Bell Hooks
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked… — C.S. Lewis
Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through… — Chin-Ning Chu
Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and… — David Levithan
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy,… — Rollo May
Mmmmm. Warm chocolate chip cookies. Not even AB negative can compare. — Heather Brewer
You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself. — Charles de Lint
Energy wasted on negative ends. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak--or at… — Jeffrey R. Holland
One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to… — Richard Carlson

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