Being Negative Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

Tony Abbott

#3. What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.

Matthew Ashford

#4. When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.

Edward De Bono

#5. Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

Joel Osteen

#6. Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum,

Larry Page

#7. Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

Joel Osteen

#8. However you see the world, realize that you can be successful if you do the work. Being positive and doing nothing will generate nothing. Being negative and fighting everything that cross your path can still lead to success.

James Woosley

#9. Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.

Michael Jackson

#10. The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative ... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.

Skrillex

#11. I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#12. I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way ... I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!

John Waters

#13. Being positive won't guarantee you'll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won't.

Jon Gordon

#14. Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

Carolyn Hax

#15. Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.

Chuck D

#16. No matter what happens throughout your day ... staying positive is always better than being negative. For It's always far better to believe things will change for the better than ... that it won't.

Timothy Pina

#17. I don't like being negative to people who are so nice to me.

Donald Trump

#18. Being negative is like spraying yourself with anti-charisma

Karen Salmansohn

#19. Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Joyce Meyer

#20. Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not and getting their heart broken.

Charlyne Yi

#21. Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!

Phil Heath

#22. Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.

Joyce Meyer

#23. I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

Godfrey Reggio

#24. Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that interesting. We should be building great things that don't exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.

Larry Page

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

Kevin Spacey

#26. Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

Susie Orbach

#27. What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

E. M. Forster

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

Persis Khambatta

#31. 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

#32. Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

Daniel Goleman

#33. There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore.
The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent.

Camelia C.

#34. There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil, evil would be positive and not negative, and therefore could never be overcome, because it would be eternal and unchanging.

Henry Thomas Hamblin

#35. Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done - complete and perfect.

Ernest Holmes

#36. Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.

Thomas L. Dumm

#37. Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.

Judith Orloff

#38. I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that's something that's really interesting to watch.

Josh Radnor

#39. All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want.

Deepak Chopra

#40. 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

#41. [ ... ] life can turn from being cheerful, warm and cozy to negative in a sec, and all it takes is us handing the power of happiness over to another human being.

Malachy McCourt

#42. I remember watching Barry Sanders highlights as a kid, and the Lions always being a fun team. I, personally, really never had a real negative connotation with the team. And I didn't really listen to those who did after I was drafted.

Ndamukong Suh

#43. The ability to reframe negative situations is a key element to being resilient.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#44. I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.

Michelle Rodriguez

#45. Besides being good for our body, running helps us to focus and throw away negative energy.

Joe Taslim

#46. There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

Walter Dean Myers

#47. The most difficult thing in this world is to adopt the spirit and attitude of a warrior. It is no use being sad, complaining, feeling unjustly treated, and believing someone is doing something negative. No one is doing anything, and certainly not to a warrior.

Paulo Coelho

#48. But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Anne Hathaway

#49. Being realistic encompasses the negative, but it by no means excludes the positive.

T.K. Coleman

#50. As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Dalai Lama

#51. When I was young, the concept of being a dreamer was a very negative one. If you were a dreamer, you were useless. You didn't contribute anything to society. But Star Trek made dreaming legitimate, and I think that was a huge, huge contribution.

Martin Cooper

#52. We seek the fulfilment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive.

Oliver Burkeman

#53. When you're not playing your head can drop, and you can get a bit negative. I try to tell them that there are a lot of things they can't control, selection being one of them, and that they should just try to stay positive.

Filo Tiatia

#54. Being a "lone wolf" has is advantages you can look from outside in and the inside out, you can get a sense for something from the clarity of being an outsider. You are free from the constraints of negative influence.

Paul Isaacs

#55. Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.

Bryant McGill

#56. Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

Jerry Harrison

#57. The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.

Watchman Nee

#58. Everyone always talks about being color blind. And I get that. I do. But maybe instead of being color blind, we should celebrate color, in all its shades. It kind of bugs me that we're supposed to ignore our differences like we don't see them, when seeing them doesn't have to be a negative.

Amy Harmon

#59. The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will only foster conflict and a sense of lack, while living towards the positive will create more opportunity for you to experience harmony and abundance.

Gary Hopkins

#60. Having negative thoughts and feelings means I'm a normal human being.

Russ Harris

#61. Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked negative thoughts can permeate the being and manifest themselves in negative actions.

Wilma Mankiller

#62. I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

Jane Seymour

#63. You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.

Randy Gage

#64. Before I started studying martial arts, I had temper problems. I could definitely fly off the handle. Being raised in the south in 1956 definitely gave me some memories to latch onto for negative emotions.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#65. When you stop trying to be all things to all people, you can stop worrying about being liked and start building relationships that allow you to be loved. If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.

Sally Hogshead

#66. I don't think being guarded is a negative thing, 'coz Naked truth aren't always pretty.

Colleen Hoover

#67. Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

#68. In reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#69. The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.

Piet Mondrian

#70. It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't let someone else's negative energy control you!).

Robin Meade

#71. I don't mind being around those who need help and want to be helped, but I don't like to be around those who are unhappy and negative all of time,because they drain you down.

Beta Metani'Marashi

#72. Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#73. The best method of protecting oneself against the inflow of negative thoughts being released by other people is that of keeping the broadcasting station so busy sending out positive thoughts that no time will be available for receiving negative thoughts. This formula is unbeatable.

Napoleon Hill

#74. Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce.

John M. Gottman

#75. I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.

Edie Campbell

#76. A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Louis C.K.

#77. Every negative has a positive." Take my sickness, for example. Being sick is not good, but through this, I have received a lot of blessings in different forms. Because of this, I am able to share everything that God has done for me.

Kcat Yarza

#78. When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.

Neve Campbell

#79. I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

Josh Radnor

#80. Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.

Liz Miller

#81. You don't put demands on people and you never say anything negative
ever. So many people suck the life out of everyone they're around, but you don't do that. You give people strength just by being you.

Matthew Quick

#82. I feel that there is a culture being built that is a celebration of agony. There is also a celebration of being an outcast, to the degree that you are segregating yourself in a negative way from people who may want to be your friend.

Andy Biersack

#83. A lot is being done to cure physical self-harm, and yet it's a by-product of mental self-harm!

Maddy Malhotra

#84. Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it's a negative importance, it's the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don't count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.

Margaret Atwood

#85. When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#86. I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.

Tom Tomorrow

#87. I don't think being a little bit guarded is a negative thing, naked truths aren't always pretty.

Colleen Hoover

#88. When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you're thrown onto a show where people are watching TV in their houses, and whether they ask for it or not, we're being played in front of them. There's a lot of negative feedback.

Tyler Joseph

#89. Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.

Daniel Tammet

#90. I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'

Anne Waldman

#91. There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

Sachin Tendulkar

#92. Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you.

Stephen Richards

#93. People live in fear of bad being out to get them, when in reality, the bad side is there only to be in polar opposite proportion to the positive that you are destined to thrive in. Conquer the negative, and thrive in the positive.

C. JoyBell C.

#94. Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

Eckhart Tolle

#95. Nothing and no-one can raise our consciousness to a field of pure bliss unless we are open to the timeless dimension operating within us. We can only do this by being present and releasing all negative energy.

Christopher Dines

#96. I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

Tim Howard

#97. Western media present events in Russia in a thoroughly negative light. Yes, we have problems, and these need to be covered. But the fact remains that there is a propaganda campaign being waged against Russia. And this is disturbing.

Gennady Timchenko

#98. Zero is my spot in this world. And it's so appropriate to be nothing, and not all in a negative way, either. I like being nothing.

C.D. Reiss

#99. Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

E. M. Forster

#100. We need to learn to "read with a comb" - that is, developing a value system that gives us the ability to be critical of what we study. Here the word critical does not mean approaching our studies with a negative attitude. It means being cautious and discerning.

R.C. Sproul