100 Negativity Quotes, Sayings On Negative People To Inspire You
Negativity Quotes to Inspire You
“Negativity doesn’t pay my bills.” —Michelle Q. Chu
“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.” —David Lynch
“Negativity will kill you faster than any disease.” —Anonymous
“Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.” —Shirley MacLaine
“The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.” —David Icke
“However vast the darkness, we must supply it with our own light.” —Stanley Kubrick
“There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?” —Zendaya
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“Don’t let negative thoughts of the past or the future ruin your today.” —Avina Celeste
“I do believe in bad energy and not wanting to be around negativity.” —Kyle Richards
“Sensitive souls draw in the negativity of others because they are so open.” —John Gray
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” —Dr. Hans Selye
“Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.” —John C. Maxwell
“You can’t think away your self-defeating thoughts; you have to dissolve them through action.” —Marty Rubin
“Negativity is cannibalistic. The more you feed it, the bigger and stronger it grows.” —Bobby Darnell
“It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
“Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.” —Carrie Brownstein
“All negativity is an illusion created by the limited mind to protect and defend itself.” —Ambika Wauters
“Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.” —Mary J. Blige
“I’ll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.” —Tim Tebow
“I feel like the bad times have fired me up: you have to turn negativity into positivity.” —Tulisa
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” —Michael Jordan
“When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.” —Allan Lokos
“When you have a lot of stress and negativity around you, when you cut that away, you cleanse.” —Lil Jon
“Having a strong sense of self-discipline helps us to avoid negativity and achieve the greatness we desire.” —Amr Okasha
“Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around. Just get lost and be saved.” —Israelmore Ayivor
“If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.” —Allu Arjun
“No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.” —Wayne Dyer
“It’s hard to let go of all that negativity, which will seriously drain your motivation, but you got to let it go.” —Oscar Auliq-Ice
“People who project negativity typically have low self-esteem. They feel badly about themselves, and their negativity is simply a reflection of those feelings.” —Hendrie Weisinger
“Having the strength to tune out negativity and remain focused on what I want gives me the will and confidence to achieve my goals.” —Gisele Bundchen
“Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don’t want to be.” —Hugh Dillon
“If you find yourself complaining a lot then you are problem-oriented. Focus on what you can do not on what you can’t to become solution-oriented.” —Akiroq Brost
“Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what’s holding you back to get away from it.” —Lucy Dacus
“People will try to pull you down, but you need to fight the negativity in your life. It’s always good to stay positive and think positive.” —Vivek Oberoi
“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
“There are some people who always seem angry and continuously look for conflict. Walk away; the battle they are fighting isn’t with you, it is with themselves.” — Anonymous
“Despair not. Refuse to be gloomy or negative. Don’t allow challenges and situations to rob your joy. Don’t allow anything or anyone to take your peace away.” —Patricia Dsouza
“Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form, and you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul.” —John O’Donohue
“If I could teach people to be grateful, we could have an amazing world where negativity could not grow and foster, and children would have a smile on their face.” —Catriona Gray
“If there’s anyone who makes you feel badly about yourself or anything that’s bringing you down, you don’t need it in your life. Negativity begets negativity, but positivity begets positivity.” —Stephanie McMahon
“Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that’s all that matters.” —Becky G
“I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you’re putting out negativity, then you’re going to retrieve that same sentiment. If you emanate joy, it comes back to you.” —Robin Wright
“There’s a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I’ve always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.” —Zac Efron
“When we choose to spread negativity, the bad vibes, or focus too much on spreading rumors and gossiping about the other person, it doesn’t show who that other person is but, it shows who we are to the world.” —Jyoti Patel
“If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.” —Harvey Mackay
“The thing that I’ve learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there’s just no point in sharing.” —Stephen Amell
“Don’t let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don’t let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.” —Nicole Polizzi
“It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.” —Erin Gruwell
Negativity Quotes, Sayings That’ll Help Think Positively
“Negativity can only feed on negativity.” —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.”
“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.” —Sophocles
“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.” —Aesop
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.” —Francis Crawford
“The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.” —Unknown
“He who has never hoped, can never despair.” —George Bernard Shaw
“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” —Mark Twain
“Fear is that little dark room where negatives are developed.” —Michael Pritchard
“I feel uncomfortable because I’m insecure about who I am.” —Trent Reznor
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own Light.” —Stanley Kubrick
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” —Henry David Thoreau
“If you don’t know the struggle, you don’t know your strength.” —Mary Kay
“The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.” —Bhagavad Gita
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” —Albert Einstein
“The chip on my shoulder’s a little heavy. I have back problems now.” —Janeane Garofalo
“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.” —Alphonse Karr
“Stop allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions.” —Steve Maraboli
“The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going down.” —Flip Wilson
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.” —Eckhart Tolle
“Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.” —Martin Buber
“Worry deprives you of strength and makes everything much worse, than what actually is.” —Dr. Anil Kr Sinha
“The more you dwell on what you don’t have, the more you get what you don’t want.” —Unknown
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston S. Churchill
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.” —Will Smith
“When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” —George Baker
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.” —George Bernard Shaw
“A lot of people will ignore positive words when they are down and accept negative words. Those people never get better.” —Travis J. Dahnke
“Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.” —Masaaki Hatsumi
“Don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.” —Clint Eastwood
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.” —Martha Graham
“Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, and causes you to bump into people not going your way.” —Ferber
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.” —Criss Jami
“Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don’t like about yourself.” —Iyanla Vanzant