Negative Influence Quotes

• Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Leaving, Doubt

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.245, Courier Corporation

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• Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

  Jim Rohn

  Weed, Negative, Influence

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 17, 2012

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• The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.

  Kendrick Lamar

  War, Opposites, Two

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

  Michael Bassey

  Quality, Excuse, Individual

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• Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.

  Marla Runyan

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• Thoughts are things. Negativity is what kills you... It's tough to do, but you've got to work at living, you know? Most people work at dying, but anybody can die; the easiest thing on this earth is to die. But to live takes guts; it takes energy, vitality, it takes thought. . . . We have so many negative influences out there that are pulling us down. . . . You've got to be strong to overcome these adversities . . . that's why I never stop.

  Jack LaLanne

  Life, Strong, Adversity

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• I have removed a lot of negative influence in my life and try to surround myself with positive people. I have a much more simple life than the old days.

  Matt Sorum

  Simple, People, Trying

  "Guns and Roses Matt Sorum on Passion and Compassion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?

  Zig Ziglar

  Positivity, Negative, Influence

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• In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

  Laozi

  Order, Negative, Influence

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• If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

  Wess Stafford

  Children, Important, Negative

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.11, WaterBrook

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• Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes.

  Michael Port

  Thinking, Healthy, Negative

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• We should not let negative influences get to us.

  St. Lucia

  Negative, Influence, Should

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Every single day in a marriage, we influence each other. It is a matter of am I going to have a positive influence or a negative influence?

  Gary Chapman

  Negative, Matter, Influence

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today.

  Vivica Fox

  Nice, Home, White

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• Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Business, Optimistic, Impact

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• In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a human concept. From the hermetic point of view, one type of being has to bring forth positive influences, whereas another type has to bring forth negative influences. In an astral respect these beings are the tools of the effects on our physical world. They are also the cause of all effects in the astral body of every human being, whether they are initiated or not.

  Franz Bardon

  Reality, Views, Evil

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• The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Art, Reality, Black

  "Black art is dangerous, because it marries the personal and political" by Hannah Giorgis, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2015.

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• It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love for and interest in one's spouse.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Frustration, Feelings, Criticism

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• Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Civilization, Negative

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