Negative Quotes - Page 15

• If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.

  Emmet Fox

  Encouragement, Thinking, Want

  Emmet Fox (2010). “Make Your Life Worthwhile”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

  Ricky Gervais

  People, Entrepreneur, Annoying

  Twitter post from Jan 5, 2013

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• There isn't a single one of us who hasn't harvested either the positive or negative effects of a simple choice of behavior.

  Paul McCabe

  Simple, Choices, Behavior

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• If only we would learn every day of our lives to overcome those things in our character which are negative, to let go and let God take them over, we would all know what it was to experience harmonious living.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Life, Letting Go, Character

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• Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

  Francis Crick

  Trying, Too Much, Messages

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• We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

  Seneca the Younger

  Hurt, Dark, Reality

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• Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Being Positive, Religion

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• Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?

  Neil Young

  Song, World

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• The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

  Diogenes

  Gratitude, Judgement, Mind

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• In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

  Amelia Barr

  Gratitude, Comfort, Events

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• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

  Edward de Bono

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Way

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• When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.

  Walt Kelly

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Enemy

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• ...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.

  Sam Walton

  Gratitude, Enough, Hard

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.39, Bantam

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• Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Gratitude, Grateful, Support You

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• "To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Dog, Fashion, Gratitude

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• Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing. For when you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force.

  Ralph Marston

  Gratitude, Blessing, Unique

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• Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

  Gail Godwin

  Opportunity, People, Growth

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• Improve with each breath. Every negative vibration returns 10 fold.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Vibrations

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• Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when we ignore them. But because these principles apply to everyone, whether or not they are aware, this limitation is universal. And the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely.

  Stephen Covey

  Principles, Harmony, Natural

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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

  Mary J. Blige

  Powerful, Negative Words, People

  Twitter post from Jun 07, 2012

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• I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

  Alberto Moravia

  Writing, Thinking, Personality

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• Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to be clear and instantly understood, and ought to be simply-stated with economy!

  Alex Toth

  Stories, Elements, Way

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• Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.

  Jonas Salk

  Block, Journey, People

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

  Jeff Galloway

  Journey, Challenges, Messages

  Jeff Galloway (2001). “Marathon: You Can Do It!”, p.80, Shelter Publications, Inc.

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• Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Believe

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