Negative Positive Quotes

#1. The fourth principal division of names, is into positive and negative. Positive, as man, tree, good; negative, as not-man, not-tree, not-good. To every positive concrete name, a corresponding negative one might be framed.

John Stuart Mill

#2. I've always been interested in the social conflict of my age, my own time, as well as the result of positive and negative of social change, and the ongoing quest we all have, from the cradle to the grave, for identity.

Stephanie Rothman

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.

Kemi Sogunle

#6. 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

#7. The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.

David Novak

#8. It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

Kelly Bryson

#9. You can't hang out with negative people and live a positive life. Run from them!

Jettie Woodruff

#10. I used to exist in a simple world of right and wrong, positive and negative. I grew out of an ordered world. Everything had its place, before I came along and belonged nowhere.

Vi Hart

#11. Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices.

Asa Don Brown

#12. Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!

Tyra Banks

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.

Stewart O'Nan

#16. Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.

Bryant McGill

#17. My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive ... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

Noel Gallagher

#18. All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought

Sydney Banks

#19. We' win over 'negative' with 'positive'.

Dada Bhagwan

#20. I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

Shia Labeouf

#21. Stay away from negative people, solution aren't the problem, they hate that, they are the problem.

Werley Nortreus

#22. When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it ... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.

Joel Osteen

#23. Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Norman Vincent Peale

#24. The only instance where five purely-negative words had had a highly positive, motivational impact are Winston Churchill's, Never, Never, Never, Never Give-up.

Nabil N. Jamal

#25. Take the Positive, and run! Run from the negative!

Margaret Aranda

#26. I think the messages are very positive. You know, "Make America great again" is a very positive message. It's not a negative message.

Donald Trump

#27. All elements of reality provide positive or negative emotions, according to the connection we develop with them, directly or indirectly.

Daniel Marques

#28. Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.

Edmund White

#29. Negative people offer no hope to the person who wants to pursue their goal. They are a hinder to positive thinking and plans for a brighter future.

Ellen J. Barrier

#30. Forgiveness is negative. Righteousness is positive. Forgiveness is you may go. Righteousness is you may come.

Timothy Keller

#31. Are you a clairvoyant? A fortune-teller? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? Past does not equal the future, so why not think big and positive?

Maddy Malhotra

#32. Your life will follow your expectations. What you expect is what you will get. If you dwell on positive thoughts, you will move in that direction; if you continually think negative thoughts, you will live a negative life.

Joel Osteen

#33. In your life never become an agent of Negativity; Unknowingly if you act negative to positive pursuits ... you unnecessarily accumulate Karmic bondage ... Then why act negative ?

Dinesh Kumar

#34. You can't imagine just how much believing in negative thoughts is affecting your life ... until you stop.

Charles F. Glassman

#35. People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary.

Jim Norton

#36. We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there.

Auliq Ice

#37. Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life's turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.

Amanda Ripley

#38. Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

Curtis Jackson

#39. 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

#40. Sometimes feelings are like that - not positive, not negative, just a lot.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#41. God is full of love, joy and peace. Every religion has said that God is within us or we are a part of God so why do we think small?
Why do we have limiting beliefs about our success? Why do we not love ourselves? Why do we have fears? Isn't thinking negative/small a sin then?

Maddy Malhotra

#42. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson

#43. One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.

Catherine Ponder

#44. Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough ... Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?

Michael Jordan

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

William Walker Atkinson

#46. Positive stress, negative stress, - stress no less. It's all in how you manage your energies.

Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

#47. The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

Nancy Etcoff

#48. You can replace negative self-talk with optimistic thoughts. It is possible to change a negative perspective on life into a positive life force if you keep a sense of proportion.

Lynn C. Tolson

#49. To contribute means add a positive or take away own negative.

Muhammad Tariq Majeed

#50. Plus/minus
Positive/negative
1/0
I can/ I can't
I will/ I won't
You are/You aren't
I said/I thought
I said "I will"/I thought "I can't"
I thought "I can"/I said "You won't

David Levithan

#51. One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#52. The life that you choose to live will produce either positive or negative outcomes, and the conclusion will be based on the choices that you choose to make.

Calvin W. Allison

#53. The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

Peter McWilliams

#54. There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.

Ashton Kutcher

#55. Few things are more negative than thinking positive for no reason.

Dov Davidoff

#56. A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#57. Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

#58. 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

#59. Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. Pick a mentor. The role of a mentor is to monitor your movements. When you desire to move the positive way and you connect with someone who thinks the negative way, you can't get there!

Israelmore Ayivor

#63. We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic

Susan Jeffers

#64. Life is a continuous war between negative and positive thoughts.Yes continuous.

Sandeep Kakkar

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

Travis J. Dahnke

#66. To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.

Pierfrancesco Favino

#67. You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

Jane Roberts

#68. To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.

Robert H. Schuller

#69. I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?

Woody Allen

#70. That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief.

Victoria Schwab

#71. [ ... ] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!

Kang Chol-Hwan

#72. 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

#73. The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly ... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale

#74. All the little things add up. Whether they were positive or negative, eventually you either see the amazing result or the biggest let down.

Behdad Sami

#75. I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.

Lance Armstrong

#76. Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

Marianne Williamson

#77. Growth will be slower, no one denies that. But the question is: Where are the chances and opportunities now? I see some positive and some negative trends.

Zhang Xin

#78. Beware of those who speak negatively about everything and everybody. A negative person will never say a positive thing about you.

Suzy Kassem

#79. Focusing on the negative often creates situations that demoralize people. When good performance is followed by a positive response, people naturally want to continue that behavior.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#80. Ti amo. Esisti solo tu per me." I love you. You're the only one for me. "You're my pleasure, my sanity, my calmness, my home. My positive counterpart in every negative characteristic I own.

Soraya Naomi

#81. There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.

Marissa Mayer

#82. It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Barry Mann

#83. In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer - any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#84. Lead me into all misfortune. Only by that path can I transform the negative into the positive.

Douglas Preston

#85. Hope ... is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

Emil Brunner

#86. Genuine freedom is not based upon the negative psychology of release. Its roots are in positive acts of dedication to ends and values. Freedom presupposes the autonomous existence of values which men wish to be free to follow and measure up to.

Robert A. Nisbet

#87. 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

#88. If anything viewed as negative has happened on your journey thus far, turn the page, create a new chapter, and write your own positive story. Then, bless humanity with the wisdom you have gained by traveling through the experience.

Molly Friedenfeld

#89. I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.

Keke Palmer

#90. Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.

Sam Kean

#91. You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#92. Making YouTube videos while I was in school, I was fortunate enough not to really have any negative repercussions from it. I had a lot of positive feedback from my friends, who thought they were great and thought they were funny and that what I was doing was really cool.

Connor Franta

#93. Why dwell on negative thoughts? When you can think positively.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#94. No one needs to be around someone who dulls the shine on a brand new penny.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#95. Another ethical ideal, the utilitarian principle, maintains that the ultimate criterion of an ethical decision is the balance of positive consequences over negative consequences produced by an action.

Philip A. Becnel IV

#96. 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

#97. The way you choose to think and speak about yourself (to yourself and others), IS A CHOICE! You may have spent your whole life talking about yourself in a negative way, but that doesn't mean you have to continue that path.

Miya Yamanouchi

#98. Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

Pat Summitt

#99. Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.

Richard Davidson

#100. The mind is a temple;
negative thoughts defile it.
The heart is a temple;
positive desires elevate it.

Matshona Dhliwayo