Negative Quotes

I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

Put on the company hat. (Be willing to accept actions that may have a negative impact upon a particular component but are in the best interests of the company as a whole.)

Life is simple. Your life is made up of only two kinds of things – positive things and negative things.

Right," she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.

Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness

It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.

The point is Hillary Clinton's campaign is the first one to ask about Barack Obama legitimity because all she does is engage in negative campaigning against Barack Obama and against Donald Trump.

Just like self-interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off-putting thing. It's, in fact, necessary for all good leaders.

The Democrats have always been known as the party that's negative and look at everything wrong.

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

The media have literally no negative effect on Donald Trump. No matter what he says, no matter how he says what he says, no matter what he does, it gets covered.

It's easy to be negative.

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.

When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.

I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

How many times, in any actor's life, do you get to be a part of something that has a legacy like [Buffy]? I think that's only fortunate. I don't see the negative.

I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

I've never heard of a size 0 or a negative human. That's hard. A lot of girls aren't naturally built that way.

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

When you feel destructive, negative emotions like hate and anger arise within you towards the person opposing you; cultivate the opposite state of mind.

My goal for these next few years, for the next forever, is to try and keep positive things around me. If somebody is coming at me with negative stuff, just back away from me.

I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.

Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

The best songs for me come from the search for joy. You're in a negative place maybe, but you're still striving to improve yourself and find happiness.

Very unfairly, there's a negative image of the kid, which really stems from the greed and selfishness of the NBA and NCAA. They're forcing these kids to go to school.

Probably not a surprise that, among the people of Mexico, just 4 percent say that they have a positive opinion of [Donald] Trump. Seventy-five percent say they have a negative opinion.

We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.

Have faith in your skills, negative thoughts kill. Self-doubt will kill your dreams before others do. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.

If you make the choice to just go with the flow, that is a choice to make a difference in a negative way.

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

A brand new Telemundo poll says that three out of four Hispanics that vote nationwide have a negative opinion of Doanald Trump. They don't like you.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.

We've been human countless times and done everything you can imagine. So we've been planting all these negative seeds, and they're going to come up.

If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma, you're going to have problems.

I try to look at things in a positive way. If someone says something negative to me, I'll just turn it around into a positive.

Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.

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.