The Negative Quotes

#1. Politicians need religion even more than a hermit in retreat. If the hermit acts inspired by bad motivation, he'll harm only himself. But if a politician, who can directly influence an entire society, acts with bad motivation, a large number of people will experience the negative consequences.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.

Philip Zimbardo

#3. It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.

Bindi Irwin

#4. The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you're going.

Anne Bancroft

#5. If you start praising your wife, if you start telling her how beautiful she is, and how glad you are to have her in your life, when you talk about the good, you will draw out the good. If you talk about the negative, you'll draw out the negative. It's up to you.

Joel Osteen

#6. I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

Deepika Padukone

#7. Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.' But that's when you should fight the hardest. Now I don't mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you.

Raini Rodriguez

#8. Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

Shawn Achor

#9. The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.

Pablo Picasso

#10. General sentiment, had a poll been taken, was that eventually the negative media would die down, Egypt's head of antiquities would return to Cairo, and St. Louis would enjoy her treasure. But treasures sometimes have a higher price than their acquisition cost.

Michele Bonnell

#11. The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede.

Gary Hopkins

#12. I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live.

Michael Jai White

#13. It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

Joel Osteen

#14. Even if one incurs a loss, he should expose this fact to the other person. This way the intent the other person does, will dispel the [negative] atoms and one will, become lighter himself. Otherwise suffering alone increases the mental burden.

Dada Bhagwan

#15. Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things.

Michelle Kwan

#16. The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy

Sunday Adelaja

#17. When you thank something negative for happening, or thank a negative thought for being there, you've just negated the negative and turned it into positive energy!

Donna Labermeier

#18. You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

Jerry Rubin

#19. Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

Chris Martin

#20. In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

Amelia Barr

#21. But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Alan Watts

#22. It doesn't matter how many people are thinking negatively about someone; if that person is in joy those thoughts can never reach them, because they are on a different frequency. Instead, all the negative thoughts will multiply and return to the people who were thinking them.

Rhonda Byrne

#23. It's all because of you. Your bravery, your zest for life, your ability to shake off the negative. You are radiant now because you chose to be happy and forgive your past.

Jenni James

#24. You can enlarge the conversation by taking your focus off the negative and noticing all the things that are going right, taking a stand for the goodness of humanity.

Pam Grout

#25. As teachers, we can literally overcome the negative influence of a community. How many other professionals can say that? That's practically a superpower.

Katie Novak

#26. Every time you tell your old story, you reactivate the negative emotions/vibes as a whole new experience in your body.

Catherine Garrett

#27. On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle.

Nel Noddings

#28. I sometimes think of people's personalities as the negative space around their insecurities.

Lindy West

#29. When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the negative thereof, must be true of such an image.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#30. Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.

Ann B. Davis

#31. I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Dolly Parton

#32. My governing principle as a critic is to call attention solely to books and writers that merit such attention, and to avoid whenever possible reviewing books "negatively" except in those instances in which the "negative" is countered by an admiring consideration of earlier books by the same author.

Joyce Carol Oates

#33. Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.

Bob Dylan

#34. The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side ... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

Abraham Maslow

#35. Worry is stressing about a situation that may or may not occur and it's always in the negative sense.

Rob Liano

#36. I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

Laura Mvula

#37. I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

Neil Postman

#38. It's always the negative things that seep through into your consciousness. Most of the positive things just roll off real fast. I just try not to pay attention to it, because I've never read anything about my band that's accurate.

Conor Oberst

#39. I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

Chester Bennington

#40. Get off the negative treadmill It does not help you in any way It keeps your mind mired in the past and leads your heart astray

Donna T. Cavanagh

#41. I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#42. I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.

Nicole Scherzinger

#43. Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.

Deborah Day

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

Karli Rush

#45. Respect is a close relative of tolerance, and both go a long way to prevent and alleviate the negative interactions between and among people. Respect was a member of each Lakota household during the free-roaming buffalo-hunting days on the northern plains.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#46. The only thing that can stop you is you ... Stay focused and never mind any of the crap anybody says. That's not you, that's them. That's the negative place they want to live in. You choose to live in a positive place. - Scooter Braun

Justin Bieber

#47. Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Peter Hoeg

#48. Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future.

Joel Osteen

#49. When we truly forgive in our hearts, not only do we purify ourselves from the heavy burdens of negative karma but we begin to create a new space for positive energy to enter this world. When we forgive, we are no longer chained to the negative actions we have created in the past.

Christopher Dines

#50. What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of
attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#51. Hypnosis helps you to increase relaxation and recreate the positive energy in you. Masha's transforming strategy in Los Angeles converts the negative thoughts of the victim with positive. Hypnosis is a trans-personal form that eliminates your fears and phobias from your life.

Masha

#52. The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Montgomery Clift

#53. Ignore and avoid the negative. Just don't waste your time. Keep committed to the positive. Seek Allah's mercy & guidance.

Yusuf Badat

#54. One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

Neal Boortz

#55. What do you do with everything that is cut away? she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life ...

Jane Urquhart

#56. Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.

Peter Diamandis

#57. By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old techniques, suspicion of innovation, resentment of competition and xenophobia.

Timothy C.W. Blanning

#58. There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don't love each other. That we don't fight for each other. That perception is so dangerous. We need positive images to counter the negative portrayals we see every day. And positive doesn't mean perfect. Perfect is boring.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#59. Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#60. Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

Washington Allston

#61. Every stage of life is unique.
At any age and stage of life there are obstacles and opportunities, trials and triumphs.
Never allow the negative bring to you to sudden halt.
Make the most of the positive opportunities and stay positive.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#62. But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy.

Alyson Richman

#63. How foolish we are to keep repeating the negative memories from the past in our minds, while rarely thinking of the good times, nor being thankful for what we have. Be good to yourself and repeat and focus on the positive.

Maddy Malhotra

#64. I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Joel Osteen

#65. You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Will Smith

#66. Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

Alfred North Whitehead

#67. I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it ... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it.

John Cameron Mitchell

#68. One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.

Simon Garfield

#69. 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

#70. Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

Charles Colson

#71. When you offer a negative thought of action, you open the negative memory-bank and you may lose all your power to persuade.

Napoleon Hill

#72. I find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power, it wins, and it can continuously happen, so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They have no place around my children.

Monica Denise Brown

#73. The biggest battle in life is to change the negative stories we tell ourselves

Melanie Greenberg

#74. The negative feelings of anger, bitterness, guilt, regret, resentment, and sadness represent a failure of a person to accept that the past is an event that holds no power over the present. The thought that the future will bring salvation is an illusion. We must exist in the present.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#75. The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.

George H. Smith

#76. Minimalism is, in its essence, about getting rid of the negative and non-essential, so that you may focus more on the positive and important.

Thomas Hilmersen

#77. Another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations-projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves-and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.

Parker J. Palmer

#78. What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

Harold Bloom

#79. The limitations you have and the negative things that you internalize are given to you by the world. The thing that empowers you - the possibilities - come from within.

Les Brown

#80. It was fun yet challenging to play the dual roles. I'm a really nice guy, and the character [of Dubious] is egocentric and hard-edged, so I had to pull out the negative aspects of me to attribute to the role.

Carson Grant

#81. In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

Demi Lovato

#82. A Seeing Eye bitch is not only for blind people but for people who pine for the negative of loneliness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#83. If a man realizes who he is, he will not react to the negative things surrounding him

Sunday Adelaja

#84. I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

Jenni Rivera

#85. Do not allow the negative of the past to mask your sight.

Asa Don Brown

#86. Don't believe the negative criticisms.
You are capable beyond measure

Lailah Gifty Akita

#87. The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror ... but I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage ... Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.

Ingmar Bergman

#88. Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.

David Levithan

#89. There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

Lili Taylor

#90. The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

Dorian Yates

#91. How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?

Gloria Estefan

#92. Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell.

Rajneesh

#93. Despite all of the negative challenges we have in life, we must take time to actively exercise our faith. Such exercise invites the positive, faith-filled power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ into our lives.

Richard G. Scott

#94. You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

Ann M. Martin

#95. Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Sydney Banks

#96. Don't let life slap you with a cold shock; consider all the negative outcomes so you can live a more positive life. You'll make wiser choices and not dwell on all the perils that can befall you." I

Dannika Dark

#97. Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

Barbara Corcoran

#98. Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#99. The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.

Mason Cooley

#100. I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

Bow Wow