Negative Quotes

• So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Learning
  • Spiritual
  • Positive

• Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Way
  • Positive
  • Inspiration

• Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Peace
  • Health

• It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Great
  • America
  • Death

• I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • She
  • Business

• I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.

  

  Aleksandra Mir
  • Negative
  • Prepared
  • Precautions

• Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Purpose
  • Positive
  • Hurt

• Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Reality
  • Mean
  • Literature

• Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • Society
  • Desire

• Imagine if you came to work and you wanted to be positive, and somebody made a positive situation negative. I don't want to be negative. I've been fighting for 17 years, always negative. Why can't I have something positive done?

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Work
  • Done
  • Why

• Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Enthusiasm

• Is negative space the space you don't like, or the space that is not there? And if it's not there how can you tell?

  

  Emma Bull
  • Space
  • Negative

• Around 1977 I became very ... negative, I began to do things unconsciously that I didn't understand, and they were very sabotagistic and I didn't know what I was doing. I was pissing everybody off, I was breaking my bridges. I was hostile to people, I was doing performances and insulting people there - I was doing whatever I could to destroy whatever world I had created ten years before, without knowing, really, why.

  

  Charlemagne Palestine
  • Destroy
  • Unconsciously
  • Pissing

• There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Politician

• It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Giving
  • Feelings
  • Acting

• I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Live
  • Divorce

• Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

  

  Craig Venter
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Drug

• How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • World
  • Positive
  • This World

• When you work towards your goals, you become healthier and healthier, mentally. It is very hard to do with a negative attitude. You just need to become more and more positive. And then you start to succeed. And starting to succeed is like winning a race and having the audience cheer. That makes you feel happy and motivates you to work even harder and achieve even more.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Positive

• When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

  

  Farrah Abraham
  • Emotions
  • Minutes
  • Nothingness

• Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Success

• I feel that there is a culture being built that is a celebration of agony. There is also a celebration of being an outcast, to the degree that you are segregating yourself in a negative way from people who may want to be your friend.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Culture
  • Celebration

• I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Responsibility
  • Negative
  • Yossarian

• To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • May
  • Experience
  • Sex

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