Top 100 Thinking Negative Quotes
#1. Comparing ourselves instead of taking lessons from ourselves is not only a catalyst to diminishing our true purpose but also a great ingredient to thinking negative and staying in mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#2. 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
#3. It was thinking negative thoughts or thinking positive thoughts, leaving the house prepared or leaving the house unprepared that made the difference.
Jack Canfield
#4. 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
#5. You can't live A POSITIVE LIFE thinking negative thoughts. Dwell on the POSITIVE.
Joel Osteen
#6. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!
Joyce Meyer
#7. I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
David Bowie
#8. So give up negative thinking and realize your potential
Sunday Adelaja
#9. You won't ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative talk and start thinking positive. You have a lot of potential but your life won't change until you change how you think.
Michele Woolley
#10. It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.
Stephen Richards
#11. Would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe
Eckhart Tolle
#13. We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good.
Clifford D. Simak
#14. I think people look back on shows like "Firefly" or "Buffy," and they remember it with this glow about it of positive response, but if you look back ... If Twitter had existed, there would have been a lot of negative tweeting about "Firefly."
Jane Espenson
#15. It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.
Tony La Russa
#16. 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
#17. Positive thinking won't allow you to do anything, but it will allow you to do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar
#18. That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think ... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.
Emmett Shear
#19. I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.
Conan O'Brien
#20. Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction ... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.
Lauren Mackler
#21. Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
Seth Godin
#22. Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.
Robert H. Schuller
#23. You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.
Tony Dorsett
#25. I've been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers - not prove them wrong, because I don't think you should get your energy from negative people.
Ice Cube
#26. Don't be negative. Negative thinking disturbs the fabric of the cosmos.
Dean Koontz
#27. I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.
Joel Osteen
#28. Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.
John Eliot
#29. Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness.
Amit Ray
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things.
Rebecca Miller
#33. The Top 4 Causes of Medical Problems: stress,negative mindset,poor diet, sedentary lifestyle.
Charles F. Glassman
#34. Limiting beliefs are a virus of the mind. They decline your success and happiness.
Maddy Malhotra
#35. Listen to what you tell yourself about your life situation. If you find it's pessimistic or negative, ask yourself, "What's another way of thinking about this?" or "What do I want to create in my life?
Lynn A. Robinson
#36. I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always positive in the short term but inevitably somewhat negative in the long term. And I think there are many examples of this in every possible context.
Chuck Klosterman
#37. When I first started watching Godzilla, I was a kid and a big dinosaur freak and was like, "Oh my gosh, there's a big dinosaur." So I immediately got into Godzilla. What I like about it are some of the things people often think are negative aspects.
Brad Warner
#38. Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.
Eckhart Tolle
#40. I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.
Bertrand Russell
#41. We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative.
Paul Rankin
#42. People tell you that you cannot, because they do not.
Tim Fargo
#43. You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.
Joel Osteen
#44. Negativity is cannibalistic. The more you feed it, the bigger and stronger it grows.
Bobby Darnell
#45. 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
#46. I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn't something I have any influence over, so there isn't any point in worrying about it.
Peter Doig
#47. I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.
Jeff Koons
#48. 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
#49. If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#50. I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.
Sean Lennon
#51. You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you.
Frederick Lenz
#52. Music is an emotion and it makes you feel a certain way. Some songs make you want to dance, while some make you think. Some songs are positive, while some people see those songs as negative.
Lil' Flip
#53. 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
#54. I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.
Ziad Doueiri
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. And when I feel it's weighing heavily on the negative side, then I get very scared and just think about eternal damnation and how unpleasant that would be.
Will Oldham
#61. Being realistic encompasses the negative, but it by no means excludes the positive.
T.K. Coleman
#62. 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
#63. If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.
Bryant H. McGill
#64. 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
#65. My friend, stay positive! It is really good to always stay positive. You don't really give a damn to negative people, circumstances and things! You only learn lessons from them that can help you take precautions to always stay positive for positive footprints!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#67. Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.
Yoko Ono
#68. Attention on the breathe, is the best tool, to take of your attention from negative thoughts or negative imagination of mind.
Roshan Sharma
#69. Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment. When we fill our minds with negative predictions or allow our thoughts to manipulate us into thinking about all the possible destructive outcomes of our mission, we invite fear to paralyze our progress.
Kris Vallotton
#71. Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem.
Rick Warren
#72. Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes.
Michael Port
#73. Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities.
Bryant McGill
#74. Without question, positive thinking will do more for you, will make you feel better, do better, let you have more fun, and be liked by more people than negative thinking ever will.
John Patrick Hickey
#75. I'd tax the Daily Mail [if I were a Prime Minister] so high no one could afford to buy it. I hate that paper, I think it's really vicious. I picked one up the other day and every single page is about hate. It's just so negative.
Jason Flemyng
#77. The greatest pollution problem is not found in the atmosphere, water, or soil; but in the minds of 90% of the population, which are contaminated with negative thoughts and beliefs.
Maddy Malhotra
#78. I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
Bette Davis
#79. Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.
Kristin Armstrong
#80. 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
#81. Don't react while you are upset because at that time your reaction will be based on negative emotions; but intuitive and positive thoughts flow when you are calm.
Hina Hashmi
#82. 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
#83. You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.
Stephen Richards
#84. 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
#85. I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.
Gertrude Berg
#86. It is our non negotiable responsibility to always stay positive, no matter what! The only thing that can make you negative is the thing you allow to make you negative! Think well and stay positive!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#87. Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.
Chris Prentiss
#88. Be very mindful of what and where your consciousness goes and how you are thinking at all times. It may be better to proactively place positive thoughts in your consciousness rather than pick up random, unwanted negative thoughts from your environment.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#89. When negative thinking changes, everything changes.
Toni Sorenson
#90. If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.
Roy Bennett
#91. Some good can emerge from the most horrific of events. There is something positive hidden in every negative, and something negative in every positive. Life is complicated, and a balanced person can see both sides.
Amish Tripathi
#92. Science is proving it now and the old spiritual books said it centuries ago that negative thoughts are the primary source of all the internal and external diseases/illnesses!
Maddy Malhotra
#93. Those people who think the same thoughts every day, most of them negative, have fallen into bad mental habits. Rather than focusing on all the good in their lives and thinking of ways to make things even better, they are captives of their pasts.
Robin S. Sharma
#95. Few things are more negative than thinking positive for no reason.
Dov Davidoff
#96. By thinking mostly about everything that has gone wrong, is going wrong, and can possibly go wrong, the thinker is bound to end up in a lousy mental and emotional state.
Gudjon Bergmann
#97. I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.
Mark McGwire
#98. The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.
Kate Warne
#99. 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
#100. 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
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