Negative Quotes

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

~ John Lydon

I don't want to be linked to anything negative. I don't want negative energy. I want everything positive around me.

~ Kendra Wilkinson

We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.

~ Andrew Lansley

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

~ Chuck Norris

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

~ James A. Baldwin

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

~ Sylvia Plath

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

~ Srikumar Rao

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

~ Shepard Fairey

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

~ Kapil Dev

Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.

~ Shiv Khera

All systems in Pakistan appear to be in a haste to achieve something, which can have both positive and negative implications. Let us take a pause and examine the two fundamental questions: One, are we promoting the rule of law and the Constitution? Two, are we strengthening or weakening the institutions?

~ Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

~ Bobby Knight

You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

~ Floyd Mayweather

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

~ Kendrick Lamar

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

~ Farrah Fawcett

We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

~ Irene Joliot-Curie

We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

~ Irina Shayk

I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety.

~ James Lasdun

I can't be around someone who is negative because I am such a positive person. If you are mean, then we don't speak.

~ Trevor Jackson

I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don't pay attention to the negative.

~ Guy Fieri

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

~ Kiefer Sutherland

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

~ Tiger Woods

When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

~ Indra Nooyi

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

~ Steven Sinofsky

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

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

~ John Mcdonald

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

~ Wyclef Jean

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

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

~ Samuel Larsen

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

~ Abby Wambach

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

~ Ken Blanchard

If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.

~ Derrick Rose

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

~ Richard Dawkins

The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.

~ Elliott Abrams

When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.

~ Yoko Ono

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

~ Shia Labeouf

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

~ Ziggy Marley

If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain.

~ Goldie Hawn

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

A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.

~ Martin O'malley