Quotes about Negativity

Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in a privation or want of holiness. And therefore undoubtedly, if it be so that sin does very much consist in hardness of heart, and so in the want of pious affections of heart, holiness does consist very much in those pious affections.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

You limit the power of angels when you speak negative, complaining, unbelieving words instead of speaking what God has declared.

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Keep negative people in your prayers, not in your life.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Don't allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.

No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.

Shelby has absolutely nothing inside of her. She's a black hole. A sinkhole. A whole lot of nothing. She's told Ben that, but he doesn't want to believe her. Who would have imagined he'd turn out to be such an optimist?