Quotes about Negativity

I've identified four specific kinds of toxic waste that can poison our minds: (1) pessimism, which usually produces chronically negative thoughts; (2) anxiety, which usually manifests as fearful and worried thoughts; (3) bitterness, which pollutes our thinking with discontented and envious thoughts; and (4) criticism, which pumps destructive judgmental thoughts into our minds.

When we drift from a deep, intimate companionship with God, we become negative, critical, judgmental and recalcitrant. We resist the repeated overtures of God's love. Neutrality and detached aloofness eventually result. We become respectably unresponsive. It happens to all of us at times. The telltale signs are equivocation, vacillation and pretense.

Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, 'Oh dear, things can't possibly get any worse.' An optimist says, 'Don't be so sad. Things can always get worse.

Charlie Brower said, "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow." Negative environments kill thousands of great ideas every minute.

Ben Franklin quipped, Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall receive it. Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

What about unfulfilled potential? That phrase is as negative as the word potential is positive. My friend Florence

By talking other people out of their dreams, critical people excuse themselves for staying in their comfort zones.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.

Bad attitudes must be addressed. You can be sure that they will always cause dissension, resentment, combativeness, and division on a team.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

When you feed negativity on the inside, it's negativity that you'll exude on the outside.

if we allow our thoughts to stink, that smell will leak out of every bit of us—our words, our actions, and especially our reactions.