Negative Quotes

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

We should not let negative influences get to us.

Negative thoughts are the single worst health habit.

You may very well have good reasons for resentment, frustration and anger. But that doesn't mean those negative responses are good for you, or that you must choose them.

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

When you're around negative energy it gets to you if you keep letting it affect you.

You are of no advantage to anyone who has your negative attention.

Even in Kitty Kelley's book, which is so negative, they talk about, as with all first ladies, that Nancy Reagan is constantly around to take photo ops with kids.

It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

You can accomplish so much with a strong will. Just do your best, no matter what. Don't let negative thoughts creep in. Don't talk yourself out of anything.

Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

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 your past, to begin living now.

Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

Love is a negative form of hatred.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

Your mind is like a garden - unless you cultivate flowers, weeds will flourish. To keep your mind positive, substitute positive thoughts for negative thoughts.

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.

People are negative no matter what you do.

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves.

American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.

A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure.

Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.

Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.

I'm used to getting reviews. I try not to read much because you'll always focus on the bad ones and not remember the good ones, so it can be a negative thing for a performer.

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

No matter the job or position you have, you have the power to create positive or negative experiences for your customers. Where do you lean?

You attract the good and desirable with positive mental attitude. You repel them with negative mental attitude.

I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.

Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.

Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.

Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative.

If you can pinpoint the moments in social media that are really negative experiences, those are the ones you can cut out. And when you do, you recognize how much better your life is.

In those places of doubt and even darkness I've realized that who I am has nothing to do with wins or losses, applause, or negative criticism. It has to do with whose I am.

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.