Be Negative Quotes

#1. We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

Laura Schlessinger

#2. Run the Race till the End, Even the result already known to be negative.

Giridhar Alwar

#3. If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.

Russell Lynes

#4. I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

Van Morrison

#5. The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

Mark E. Hyman

#6. If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.

Scott Boras

#7. Don't be negative. Negative thinking disturbs the fabric of the cosmos.

Dean Koontz

#8. 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.

Joel Osteen

#9. I'm a busy guy but I set aside quiet time every morning and every evening to keep my equilibrium centered on my own path. I don't like being swayed by anything that might be negative or damaging.

Donald Trump

#10. To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

Randy Moss

#11. 116. To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred and valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditably.

Kurt Cobain

#12. Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

Tom Glazer

#13. My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

Gordie Howe

#14. Life too short to hold grudges, hate, be negative, be mean, and unfriendly.

Jennifer M. Malone

#15. And when I am negative, I will be negative only for as long as I have to be, until I can understand it, and then I will be positive ... when I hate, I will turn my hatred into energy, when I am angry I will turn my anger into energy ... and I will not be complacent.

Amy Ray

#16. If you focus on your problems or your frustrations, your attitude is going to be negative and defeated. But when you put your focus on God and His promises for your life, your attitude will immediately change.

Joyce Meyer

#17. It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks.

Donald Curtis

#18. These days, I do not have the strength or energy to even be negative. These days, I just am.

J.R. Rain

#19. Don't be negative. It shows on your face.

Shahrukh Khan

#20. Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax rates. There can be subsidies. There can be allowances for depreciation. Lobbyists are adaptive creatures.

Joel Achenbach

#21. You have a right not to be negative.

Maurice Nicoll

#22. It's easy to be negative.

Rush Limbaugh

#23. It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

Dalai Lama XIV

#24. This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.

Richard M. Helms

#25. There would be consequences to this weekend, I knew that now and I wasn't lying to myself anymore. But maybe they wouldn't all be negative. Maybe I would walk away a better person because of my encounter with this man. Yes, it sure was, life was wild.

Mia Sheridan

#26. With each passing year, experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water. In fact, observations suggest that the feedback is close to zero or may even be negative.

William Happer

#27. We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.

Herb Kohl

#28. If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#29. I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

Jim Henson

#30. I never thought a role model should be negative.

Michael Jordan

#31. When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

Jenson Button

#32. It takes more energy to be negative than positive for negativity is a burden. HS/el

Evinda Lepins

#33. I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.

Kyle Kinane

#34. If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!

Benjamin Carson

#35. Give thanks for all that shows up in your life including the stuff that you perceive to be negative, the things that you wish wouldn't have happened. Don't take anything forgranted.

Wayne Dyer

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

Jessica Simpson

#37. Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions.

Ed Seykota

#38. If you emit positive energy, even people who don't like you will not be negative when around you.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#39. It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

#40. My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

Joyce Meyer

#41. I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.

Madison Davenport

#42. We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

Joel Kinnaman

#43. It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

Eric Davis

#44. To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

Yaya Toure

#45. The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

Jane Fonda

#46. What we want is happiness, but if in pursuit of our own personal happiness we ignore the welfare of other sentient beings and only bully and deceive them, the results will be negative.

Dalai Lama XIV

#47. I don't have time to be negative.

Venus Williams

#48. It's an amazing experience when you focus on the positive things in your life. Things start to change. You become happier. You see things differently. There might still be negative things there, but like an airplane flying overhead, they become the background noise of your mind.

Tom Giaquinto

#49. We're given a hand to play. We can be negative and be miserable or be positive and happy, making the best of it.

Terri Haynes Roach

#50. There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.

Alexander Ovechkin

#51. You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen.

Rob Portman

#52. If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

Stephen Malkmus

#53. He now often remembered his conversation with Prince Andrew and quite agreed with him, though he understood Prince Andrew's thoughts somewhat differently. Prince Andrew had thought and said that happiness could only be negative, but had said it with a shade of bitterness and irony

Leo Tolstoy

#54. Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.

Charlotte Arnold

#55. To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred, or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditability.

Kurt Cobain

#56. A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

Nancy Kress

#57. When your life has an expiration date, you don't have time to be negative. (Paraphrased from Kresley Cole's book "Lothaire")

Kresley Cole

#58. I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

Ryan Adams

#59. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

Joyce Meyer

#60. There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

John McDonald

#61. I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

Chrissy Teigen

#62. There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar

Stormie O'martian

#63. Politicians show no signs of even knowing the difference between negative and positive rights. Blinded by the dazzle of anything that makes them popular, they honestly may not be able to tell.

P. J. O'Rourke

#64. The logical mind creates fears based on past experiences and predicts a negative future, but the Universe is unpredictable. Therefore, your future can be hundred times better than your past. Either have faith or listen to your fears. Both cannot exist together!

Maddy Malhotra

#65. Iron can only be destroyed by rust, and rust is a slow process which is caused by the hydrogen ion from water in the environment. Coat yourself against negative thoughts and be careful what you feed your mind because your mind is your greatest asset, make sure you are not using it against yourself.

Uzoma Nnadi

#66. You can choose to be mad in a negative
way where it fuels you to do
mean, hateful things, or you can let
your madness fuel your art and
channel it in a positive way.

Allie Gonino

#67. I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accustomed and tolerant. I don't want to stop being surprised. I just want them to stop.

Red Haircrow

#68. Every emotion that is in the human mind is there for a positive reason, and they must be used for positive reasons, anger is a positive emotion if it used correctly, so is aggression. God did not put anger and aggression in you just for negative purposes alone.

Amos Wilson

#69. Sometimes, we find ourselves as conservatives being angry when we should be joyful, finding ourselves being negative when we should be positive, because we have a positive message to send ... We ought to be the most compassionate people in the world.

Kevin Cramer

#70. When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person.

Frank Iero

#71. Look," he said, "the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst."
If you expect the worst, you're never disappointed," I pointed out.
Yeah, but who lives like that?

Sarah Dessen

#72. I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

Charles Fort

#73. For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.

Joyce Brothers

#74. It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

Tony La Russa

#75. You have too much social influence upon you. You are not going by your own nature. People do so many nonsensical life-negative things because they don't want to be left out of the scene around them.

Jaggi Vasudev

#76. Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#77. Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn't know that pain is a negative quality, and that if you add them up it reduces the sum we call happiness? so it follows ...
But ... nothing follows. The slate is clean. Naked.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#78. Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are.

Eckhart Tolle

#79. Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

Eliot Wigginton

#80. Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.

Robert H. Schuller

#81. It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue academia in the way that I always thought I could. I guess that was a bit of battle and just my own kind of negative thoughts about what I can achieve.

Erin Richards

#82. Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction ... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.

Lauren Mackler

#83. But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

Deborah Tannen

#84. If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

Daniel Johns

#85. Negative self talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible ... and know that it is always possible.

Doug Pedersen

#86. If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas ...

Eva Zeisel

#87. I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe. Y

Michael Buble

#88. Sure, it's easy to be upbeat when everything is going your way. Anyone can do that. It is far more important, however, to take a positive approach in circumstances that most people would view as negative.

Ralph Marston

#89. If someone feels negative about the way society or culture seems to be going, what it probably suggests is that it's just moving away from the state that they are comfortable with or used to. It's understandable why someone would feel that way.

Chuck Klosterman

#90. I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

Catherine Tate

#91. Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

Alana Stewart

#92. The rule of thumb in student files seemed to be, If you have nothing negative to say, don't say anything at all.

Harlan Coben

#93. True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.

Rabindranath Tagore

#94. Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.

William Safire

#95. It's ever so much more satisfying to get into a blissful place and attract a blissful person and live blissfully hereafter than to be in a negative place and attract a negative partner and then try to get happy from that negative place.

Esther Hicks

#96. You are the determining factor in your future. Don't let others be your judge and jury with their pity and negative thoughts or feeling. Know that you are here for a reason. Recognize, develop, and use the resources you do have. Others see the surface; you know your heart.

Zig Ziglar

#97. We can be a victim or a creator. One takes negative memories to use as a crutch, remain the same and blame. The latter takes negative memories accepting responsibility for choosing the situation to learn, evolve and change.

Juls Amor

#98. It is true, even people with painful childhoods ... grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

Barbra Streisand

#99. We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians slowly recreate their own customs as the Spirit of Christ gradually teaches them ...

Roland Allen

#100. The aim of promoting low down payments is to push prices back up so that fewer houses are going to be in negative equity and fewer people are going to walk away from the mortgages. That will save the from taking a loss on their junk mortgage loans.

Michael Hudson