Negative Quotes

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Michael Jordan

Change, Others, Accept

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson

Positive, Thoughts, Start

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller

Time, Important, Decision

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
Heidi Klum

Positive, Yourself, Important

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

Positive, Thinking

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, War, Merely

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone

Positive, Attitude, Big

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan

Positive, Situation, Turn

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
Dalai Lama

Faith, Find, Emotions

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller

Positive, Thought, Thoughts

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Positive, Nothing

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan

Big, Result, Missing

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jean Baudrillard

Jealousy, Judgment, Praise

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
Michelle Obama

Yourself, True, Energy

I never thought a role model should be negative.
Michael Jordan

Thought, Role, Model

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Nhat Hanh

Positive, Why, Try

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Barack Obama

Islam, Fight, Against

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe Bryant

Rise, Pressure, Challenges

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership, Positive, Learn

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
Will Smith

Father, Black, Friends

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

Positive, Times, Side

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye

Positive, Attitude, Stress

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Robert Collier

Positive, Attitude, Big

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
Sai Baba

Spiritual, Real, Lost

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Abdul Kalam

Success, Great, Amazing

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.
Eric Davis

Work, Energy, Rather

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

Positive, Genius, Value

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
Mitt Romney

Work, Long, Political

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.
Tom Hiddleston

Life, True, End

I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.
Sophia Bush

Life, Someone, Energy

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