Top 125 Negativity Quotes

I always loved the spotlight, just not the negativity.

I feel like the bad times have fired me up: you have to turn negativity into positivity.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you’re not just fighting opponents, you’re also fighting yourself.

My mother’s prayers protect me. Negativity, nothing reaches me.

I had to find a way of dealing with not starting matches, but when you don’t play and you’re surrounded by players who do, the negativity comes.

I try my best to just ignore the negativity. Which is hard for me because it’s a lot to deal with.

I’ve always taken care of myself, and I’m a non-conformist, so I don’t accept the negativity that comes with birthdays.

Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.

I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.

A lot of people don’t start something because of fear because they’re scared of a negative outcome. Whereas I believe if you focus on negativity, you’ll make nothing of your life.

He doesn’t like to be hit. Not that anybody likes to be hit, but Brock for whatever reason has shown much more of a dramatic response to the negativity of those shots. To the point where he’s not asleep, it isn’t like he got knocked out, he’s not getting dropped, but he just turns his face away from adversity.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

I think our society today, the negativity is at the forefront, so you see all the people that have outrage about this or that.

When I was growing up, my mother taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other – there was no room in our household for negativity. She taught us to embrace each other, and this was empowering for us. She also taught us the value of celebrating our differences.

I do what I feel is right. If what I do and say doesn’t harm anyone else, I don’t care about what negative people say. I block and delete negativity.

I never want to make the quarterback feel like I’m being a distraction or I’ve got any negativity toward him.

We have to talk about the negativity, but we have to enjoy the beauty of what this country, culturally, has done.

I’m so tired of reading all the negativity about black fathers running away and no black men as role models in society. I had a great father. Most of the guys I knew had great fathers.

If you dwell on your negativity you can never move on.

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

‘Bigg Boss’ for me is a journey and when the journey is coming to an end you don’t want to continue any negativity, grudges or burden with you.

We actors get a lot of love, but at times, we get double the amount of negativity for no reason whatsoever.

I see no point in holding grudges. I’d rather not have any negativity within me.

Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person’s life, there’s probably not a whole lot of love going on there.

When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don’t feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don’t run my mouth.

I think sometimes you can be around somebody and take in certain energy and read certain things and you don’t know why your neck is stiff. But if you can recognise the negativity, once you identify it and you know what you are dealing with you can make a point to counteract it with a different energy.

Like virtually all of the women I know, I spent my teenage years battling with my body and feeling I wasn’t good enough. A lot of that negativity is because I was pursuing a career in modeling and was told countless times that my body was too big. My hips and thighs were too wide.

I think there’s an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you’re an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.

I credit the women who came before me and credit New Zealanders for welcoming me having a child… positivity outweighed negativity. I’m proud of the nation.

I don’t like any kind of negativity. I try to be good to everyone, whether it’s a love, a friend, an ex. I’ll always try to treat people the way I want to be treated.

As much as I love make-up and the creativity behind this, the Internet can be a horrible place, and sometimes, with so much negativity and hate, it’s hard.

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it’s surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.

I’m hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.

My entire life I’ve proved that I’m able to overcome people’s negativity toward me.

My job is to take out the negativity from a positive guy and take out the positivity from a negative guy. I don’t play positive or negative roles. This is what I find fascinating about acting.

Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that’s all that matters.

I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you’re putting out negativity, then you’re going to retrieve that same sentiment. If you emanate joy, it comes back to you.

Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.

I been around negativity all my life. To do something positive, it’s a beautiful thing.

If you’re a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I’ve played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra – they’re all powerful women, but they’re forces of negativity.

The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way ‘Tusk’ was made and the reasons why I thought it was important to move into new territory. It wasn’t just negativity. There was open hostility. Then I got a certain amount of flak because it didn’t sell as many as ‘Rumours.’

Whenever I’m trying to understand people that I don’t understand, or things in people or even in myself, I’ll say, ‘When did this negativity get here?’ I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I’m dealing with grew up.

It is hurtful to read things which are not true. I am learning to focus only on my work and not pay heed to any negativity.

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like ‘Letterman’ and ‘The View,’ and I’ve heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven’t felt any negativity toward me or my music.

With my name, there’s been a lot of negativity around it. I’ll be real. I understand it.

You are a human being, you do react. If you react to negativity, you also react to positivity.

If there’s anyone who makes you feel badly about yourself or anything that’s bringing you down, you don’t need it in your life. Negativity begets negativity, but positivity begets positivity.

I feel like it’s big now with the passing of Mac Miller. Rest in peace, Mac Miller, who was a good friend of mine. That just showed people, like, it could happen to anybody. Just because you have fame or money, you’re not immune to negativity and depression and stress.

The Gottman Institute’s study about arguments in long-term relationships concludes that couples with the best chance at long-term success are the ones with a low negativity threshold: if something’s wrong, they speak up about it immediately. That’s something I’ve taken on board.

Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what’s holding you back to get away from it.

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it’s important after you’ve been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there’d be something I’d miss that was funny in the future. If there’s a chance I’m going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

Obama shows no sign of easing up on negativity.

I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Let’s face it – negativity sells records.

One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.