Quotes About Negativity

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer – any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

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.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Negative feelings about the past bring negativity to the present

We create blocks by hanging on to negative energy

The negative side of marriage remains long after the positive goals have been discarded.

Today I release the effect of every negative experience of the past and every negative effect it had on me. I love myself for what I am and I extend this feeling to everyone else. I wish for everyone to have all the good they deserve. I want all the good there is for myself and for everybody. I know that we all share this planet, and we are all a part of Life. I accept everyone as I accept myself.

It's my perspective: gloom and doom.

We embrace the knowledge that affirmations and negativity cannot travel the same neural pathways at the same time.

Our thoughts have prepared for us the happiness or unhappiness we experience.

Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.

The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

You have to be in the right state of mind to see opportunities and not fall into the old, negative habits of allowing others to put information about reality into your head that holds you back from the wealth you so richly deserve.

Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.

Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Unfortunately, the media devotes so much space to covering all of the bad, hateful things that are going on and not enough to reporting about all the goodness and kindness that's out there.

Life is where you look, right? I mean look for the bad, you'll find more of the bad, look for the good, you'll find more of the good.

I'm a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country.

You know I'm never happy. I'm not happy, unless I'm miserable.

Renowned people from all fields receive unnecessary flak so often. Anonymity is misused, and it is a terrible thing to want to break somebody's spirit.

The best couples, or the most successful couples, are the ones with a really low negativity threshold. These are the couples that don't let anything go unnoticed and allow each other some room to complain.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.