Negative Words Quotes

• Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Positive, Christian

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• Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future.

  Joel Osteen

  Uplifting, Victory, Levels

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2012

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• Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

  Mary J. Blige

  Powerful, People, Boomerang

  Twitter post from Jun 07, 2012

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• I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over. So when the rude or cruel thing is said - the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate - I say, "Take it all out of my house!" Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they'll be on my skin.

  Maya Angelou

  Hate, Believe, Gay

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• Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

  Paul Simon

  Inspirational, Clouds, Sky

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

  Dominique Pire

  Respect, Understanding, Tolerance

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• Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.

  John C. Maxwell

  Negative

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Effort, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “Panchayat Raj”

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• The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ahimsa, Highest, Has Beens

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.442, Rajpal & Sons

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• I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Gratitude, Class, People

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words.

  Ruth Fishel

  Positive Words, Self, Feel Good

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• He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said. '"Ignorance,"' I said.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Daughter, Children, Ignorance

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.92, Penguin

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• Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life.

  Novak Djokovic

  Mean, Thinking, Tennis

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• They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

  Shimon Peres

  Men, Parent, Pressure

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?

  John Green

  Girl, Exercise, America

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.106, Penguin

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• Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, America, Trying

  "Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today".

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• The more you look into pigs the more you realize quite how everywhere they are. People come in contact with parts of pigs probably between 20 and 50 times a day. And that's before you even eat your dinner. And yet we just have a long string of negative words about them.

  Herbert

  Pigs, Long, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

  Adora Svitak

  Adults, Way, Helping

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