Negative Quotes

2291 Negative quotes by 1417 unique authors

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about;… — Alfred Korzybski
And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The… — Sheryl Sandberg
Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative. — Sherry Argov
Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has. — Benjamin Hoff
It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal… — Erin Gruwell
I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can… — Napoleon Hill
And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most… — Augusten Burroughs
Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within! — Rhonda Byrne
You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child. — Jeaniene Frost
Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When… — Demi Lovato
You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought. — Emmet Fox
There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his… — Norman Vincent Peale
I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly… — Lev Yilmaz
Don't bring negative to my door. — Maya Angelou
Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out. — Norman Vincent Peale
I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results! — Joyce Meyer
I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control.… — Eckhart Tolle
Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns… — Rajneesh
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for… — Rajneesh
The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to… — Soren Kierkegaard
Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have… — Arun Manilal Gandhi
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay. — Deepak Chopra

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