Negative Quotes

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of scripture and the teachings of the prophets which we have had constantly before us.

A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love for and interest in one's spouse.

I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for.

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

I spend a lot of time with my family. I go to bed early, don't watch too much television, don't read everything that's written about me whether positive or negative.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

I've heard Donald [Trump]s ay this at his rallies, and it's really unfortunate that he paints such a dire negative picture of black communities in our country.

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

It was thinking negative thoughts or thinking positive thoughts, leaving the house prepared or leaving the house unprepared that made the difference.

I see a sea of millions of people going down with their own negative thoughts, going down for the third time in this big sea of iniquity and negativity.

Focusing on negative situations is never helpful.

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

For some reason people say such negative things about having a baby - you won't sleep, the stress, the crying. Nonsense. It's a total joy so cherish every second.

We must intend to live [the new spiritual awareness], to integrate each increased degree of awareness into our daily routine. It only takes one negative interpretation to stop everything.

You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.

A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.

I don't isolate too much or make the project my god. This helps a lot with negative ideation.

I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative.

I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a lot of them are negative ideas.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

If I had only a negative side of things to present, I think I would have much less of a drive to do it. Because what would be the point?

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It's like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity.

Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

I don't think this debate is negative, it is enriching

Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.

This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.