Negative Control Quotes

#1. If we attempt nothing more than a rigid negative control of the waves of desire, without raising waves of love, compassion and devotion to oppose them, then the result may be even more tragic.

Swami Prabhavananda

#2. And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have.

Michelle Hodkin

#3. Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

Alfred A. Montapert

#4. By staying active & learning to control negative emotions and thoughts, you can live out the rest of your life on a good note.

Jude Bijou

#5. Don't let negative pictures play on the movie screen of your mind. You are the director and the audience. You are in charge. Take the remote control. Change the channel. If you let your imagination run wild, let it run wild in a positive direction.

Joel Osteen

#6. We can only recreate ourselves with renewal of our mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. If we allow the negative to take over, it will quickly consume us to the point we will lose control.

Karli Rush

#8. We tend to have a knee-jerk negative response to anything that seems to want or have control over us.

Sheena Iyengar

#9. Don't be enslaved by your negative thoughts. It's your mind, so take control of it - now!

Maddy Malhotra

#10. The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

James Hillman

#11. There is no reason to contain your positive thoughts, words and emotions and many reasons to control your negative ones. Are you making the right choices?

Tom Cunningham

#12. When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.

Immortal Technique

#13. I am not going to let negative people control my mood. They have problems and they are not going to give their problems to me.

Joyce Meyer

#14. It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.

Dalai Lama

#15. I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

Taraji P. Henson

#16. A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.

Annalee Newitz

#17. The biggest thing I've had to overcome was clinical depression. Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have once you can get control of your mind ... I had to stop hearing the negative voices where Jennifer was not worthy of love or living.

Jennifer Holliday

#18. The undisciplined mind is like an elephant. If left to blunder around out of control, it will wreak havoc. But the harm and suffering we encounter as a result of failing to restrain the negative impulses of mind far exceed the damage a rampaging elephant can cause.

Dalai Lama XIV

#19. Any extended period of negative emotions can lead to you giving in to despair and accepting your fate. If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness is a fact of life and pass up opportunities to hang out with people. The loss of control in any situation can lead to this state.

David McRaney

#20. You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

Malcolm X

#21. When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

Stephen Covey

#22. Set your mind free from any negative thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Confession and repentance might be described as the negative side of submission; this involves getting rid of everything which hinders God's control over our lives. Yielding to God might be described as the positive side ... placing ourselves totally into the hands of God.

Billy Graham

#24. Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.

Wanda Carter

#25. Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

Carlos Slim

#26. A negative gesture. Little by little he began to get the coughing under control again. Mike was right; something was going to happen, and

Stephen King

#27. We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

Li Keqiang

#28. Never worry about the negative in others, for you cannot change what you don't control, conquer your own demons and be happy.

A.M. Sawyer

#29. Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals

Asa Don Brown

#30. People who perceive the negative experiences in their lives as the result of uncontrollable forces are at a higher risk for depression than those who believe they have control

Sheena Iyengar

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

Matthew Ashford

#32. In many situations, the only thing you can control is your own response. Changing self-talk from negative to positive is an excellent way to manage that response. Anger destroys your health and relationships.

Maddy Malhotra

#33. 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

#34. If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self-pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts.

Maddy Malhotra

#35. If we can be cheered up by positive images we can be depressed by negative ones. As long as we accept images as realities we are in that trap, because you can't control the images.

David Bohm

#36. 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

#37. Today's circumstances are out of your control but you CAN control your response. Don't let a negative outlook kill your joy today.

LeCrae

#38. There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people learn to control themselves. Through training, they quickly realize that anger is a waste of energy, that it has only negative effects on the self and others.

Kano Jigoro

#39. When you're faced with a significantly life-altering negative situation you can't control, you grasp at the little things you can control. The little opportunities where you can make choices for yourself.

Josh Sundquist

#40. You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!

Helen Steiner Rice

#41. The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#42. You have the ability to control your thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. Acceptance and commitment therapy, a variant on cognitive therapy, attempts to teach people to accept rather than change their emotions and make decisions within the context of what they value, as opposed to letting negative feelings control their behavior.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#44. With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

David Suzuki