Negativity Quotes

Yakov spent the whole day playing his fiddle; when it got completely dark, he took the notebook in which he recorded his losses daily, and out of boredom began adding up the yearly total. It came to over a thousand roubles. This astounded him so much that he flung the abacus to the floor and stamped his feet. Then he picked up the abacus, again clicked away for a long time, and sighed deeply and tensely. His face was purple and wet with sweat. He thought that if he could have put that lost thousand roubles in the bank, he would have earned at least forty roubles a year in interest. And therefore those forty roubles were a loss. In short, wherever you turned, there was nothing but losses every

~ Anton Chekhov

It is noted that from 1967 to 1995 essays on negative emotions far outnumbered those on positive emotions in the psychological literature. The ratio was 21:1. Even those supreme perpetrators of pop nihilism, The New York Times and The Washington Post, have a better ratio than psychological literature. They average 12 negative stories to every one that might be construed to be non-negative. Many of their non-negative stories, however, cover success in sports and entertainment. I demand that the purveyors of despair who pretend to be dispassionate observes of the human condition go ahead and disclose that the 10 most beautiful words in the English languages are chimes, dawn, golden, hush, lullaby, luminous, melody, mist, murmuring, and tranquil; that Java sparrows prefer the music of Back over that of Schoenberg; that math experts have determined there are 1/96 trillion ways to lace up your shoes; that the Inuit term for making love is translated as ‘laughing together in bed;' and that according to Buckminster Fuller, “pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.

~ Rob Brezsny

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

~ Criss Jami

Whenever you should question your self-worth, always remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

~ Suzy Kassem

It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have been conditioned to find positive in negative rather than suffering from the negative in negative. Or as Paul the Apostle wrote, 'I have learned the secret to contentment in any and every circumstance.' He was right. Indeed the Lord is our strength, especially under the commandment to love one another. Otherwise we are nothing and easily thrown about by both our own and other people's mind control in a painful, mental, physical desperation to run from every thought, every thing, and every one not seeming so positive or immediately beneficial to us.

~ Criss Jami

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

~ Daniel Willey

Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.

~ Gina Lake

If you don't mind them and accept that they don't like you, you'll see that you won't return the negativity.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Be aware of negativity but do not let it take root in the sinews of your creative spirit.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Nothing kills creativity so well as a big dose of negativity.

~ Stella Payton

Something wonderful is about to happen, and something awful is about to happen. You can dwell on either one. It’s your choice.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time in the future when the fate of the country is in their hands.

~ Erin Gruwell

Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

~ Herman Melville

She’s a gray woman with gray sayings.” “A crape-hanger.

~ Benedict Freedman

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

~ Susan Cain

Sure, Manda knew that the tree wasn’t actually dead. Mrs. Evans, her teacher, taught her that some trees lose their leaves in the wintertime making them look dead, when they were only sleeping.Sleeping or not, the big tree was dead to Manda.

~ Julie B. Campbell

If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for dogs, cats, and chimpanzees but doesn’t work quite so well for women and men. Without the capacity to freely shape our own lives, much as a sculptor might carve stone, we inevitably slip into negativity and depression.

~ H.e. Davey

Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.

~ Kamand Kojouri

To Graduate from the School of Life you need to have met the following criteria: Found your life purpose, know how the egoic mind operates, detached yourself from the egoic mind, lived in essence, been in essence in relationships, overcame duality, trusted life, became awake, reprogrammed beliefs, handled anger, forgiven everyone, loved yourself, dealt with fears, overcome anger you had with God/you, cleared your emotional complexes & negativity, let go of the past, dealt with difficult relationships and mastered loving all creations of the universe.

~ Marina G. Roussou

One who speaks ‘completely’ negative creates karmic obstructions (antray) and ‘positive’ does not create any obstruction (antray).

~ Dada Bhagwan

We’ win over ‘negative’ with ‘positive’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Remember that many negative people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Watch your dreams and watch our friends. Take time and watch your friend again with sharpened eyes. Turn on your dreams again, watch them again, then watch your friends once more and know who to keep away and who to keep nearer!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around... Just get lost and get saved!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.

~ Criss Jami

Beware; satan visits you by the noises of negatively minded people. Hear, but don't act on it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Negativity may misguide a person to see daylight as moonlight, and then he goes to sleep instead of rising up to work. No every irresponsible act is caused by laziness, negative attitudes take a bigger share!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When the weaver bird flies, nobody talks; when the busy bee flies, no one will make comments... But when a human being begins to fly, you begin to hear talks in the town such as abomination!... where did he get the wings from?. Never mind! Your dreams are your wings, so decide to fly!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is uncomfortable to keep your dreams in a house just behind a public toilet, your dreams will surely attract bad odours from the waste products of people in detracting environments. Keep it away from negative people!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Negative people talk and your dreams begin to wither off. But they begin to sprout in the fragrance of hope when they find a new soil! Change your environment!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Every individual whom you interact with affects the flow of energy in your body. Some flow with positivity spreading love and compassion, making you happy. Others flow like venom, harming you. The question is what to do with these negative people? Either, you can simply throw them out of your life and not let them affect you anymore. The other way is to have so much positivity and optimism that their negativity is covered up with your energy!

~ Neelam Saxena Chandra

There is no such thing as perfection and it is okay for you to have negative thoughts.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There is a lot of negativity and bad habits that just need to be cut out of our lives. Sometimes we hold on tightly to the things that are actually causing us a lot of pain. We are our own worst enemy. We cling to all the wrong things. We subconsciously do things that are very bad for us, the worst being that we tell ourselves every day that “we’re not good enough” and “it’s our fault”. Well cut it out!

~ S.r. Crawford

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower.Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. Be that lotus flower always. Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings destroy your confidence, affect your growth, or make you question your self-worth.

~ Suzy Kassem