Best Negative Quotes

#1. Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life's negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

#2. The soil of our mind contains many seeds, positive and negative. We are the gardeners who identify, water, and cultivate the best seeds.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective. They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.

Adam Levine

#4. Like the word hope, we often think of power as negative. It's not. The best definition of power comes from Martin Luther King Jr. He described power as the ability to effect change.

Brene Brown

#5. 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.

Rebecca Twigg

#6. Too often we talk ourselves out of God's best. We allow doubts, fears, and discouraging things people have said to limit us and convince us to settle where we are. Negative voices always speak the loudest.

Joel Osteen

#7. The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

Zig Ziglar

#8. 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.)

Reginald H. Jones

#9. The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements.

Bernie Sanders

#10. Don't allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don't have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.

Mary Hatwood Futrell

#11. Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.

Connie Kerbs

#12. My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.

Tony Robbins

#13. The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.

Rosa DeLauro

#14. And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

Nolan Ryan

#15. Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.

Charles Colson

#16. When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow."

Amy Dickinson

#17. I restrained myself from making negative comments, he'd be discouraged, after all I was his best friend. If I wasn't on his side in this walk of life who would be?

Jill Thrussell

#18. A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

Norman Vincent Peale

#19. If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

George Foreman

#20. 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

#21. The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

Robert Breault

#22. 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

#23. The same view you look at every day, the same life, can become something brand new by focusing on its gifts rather than the negative aspects. Perspective is your own choice and the best way to shift that perspective is through gratitude, by acknowledging and appreciating the positives.

Bronnie Ware

#24. Goodbye" is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends. Never hesitate to wave it back. Be bold to say "no" to what always keeps you static!

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't.

Thomas A. Edison

#26. People often ask for my advice and counseling, but overall, the best advice I can give to anyone at any time is: never complete a negative statement.

Bear Heart

#27. If the people around you are negative and you can't change that, either remove yourself from the situation or view it simply as one obstacle you face in pursuing your own potential. Stay focused on your own goals and make the best of the situation.

Terry Orlick

#28. Attention on the breathe, is the best tool, to take of your attention from negative thoughts or negative imagination of mind.

Roshan Sharma

#29. 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

#30. Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

Lamar Odom

#31. Our best friend and our worst enemy reside within us. Unfortunately, most of us access the latter far more often than the former.

Maddy Malhotra

#32. Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person than any competing religion or worldview. It is so appealing that adherents of other worldviews keep free-loading the parts they like best.

Nancy Pearcey

#33. If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.

Alec Baldwin

#34. There will be positive and negative references with everything we do in life. At best we can simply hope that overtime, the positive outweighs the negative.

Jay Danzie

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

Theophilus London

#36. One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: 'What does this experience make possible?'

Michael Hyatt

#37. 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

#38. It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.

Zooey Deschanel

#39. Best positive friend ... or worst negative enemy.
The choice is entirely up to you!

Timothy Pina

#40. The police pull up in back of my car and run my plates - they don't see you as you are; they see you through a racialized negative gaze. I think the best thing is not to internalize it too much, or it'll make you crazy because you know it's going to happen again.

Mark Bradford

#41. My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

Michael Eisner

#42. Best way to get away from negative feelings and emotions is to involve ourselves without getting involved. It comes by practice and is beneficial for our health; be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.

Mahesh Babu

#43. The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.

William Walker Atkinson

#44. Give your best, not your all.
If you give your best and you lost, you still have something left in you.
But if you give your all, you will lose everything and be left with pain and regret.

Anonymous

#45. Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to the negative where other writers will.

Millicent Ashby

#46. Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Roy Bennett

#47. Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

Erma Bombeck

#48. 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

#49. If you have a negative thought about a world situation, dwell upon the best that could happen in that situation.

Peace Pilgrim

#50. The more attention you pay to a behavior, the more it will be repeated. Accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative are the best tools for increasing productivity.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#51. A lot of people will ignore positive words when they are down and accept negative words. Those people never get better.

Travis J. Dahnke

#52. The best way to get rid of the negative thoughts is to crowd them out with something else bigger and more beautiful: worship of the One who holds everything in His powerful and capable hands.

Jocelyn Green

#53. Even at your best, someone will have something negative to say. Pursue Greatness anyways!

Tony Gaskins