35 Quotes About Leaving Negativity Behind

Negative thoughts in life can start to take control of your emotions and full potential. These quotes about leaving negativity behind offer the right type of encouragement you need to stay on track.

“Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.”

“Buy a gift for a dog, and you’ll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don’t have anything to offer to it, it won’t even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.”

“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling.”

“Do not come into agreement with fear. Activate your faith, live in victory, speak over your life and expect great things to come your way.”

“Don’t promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person.”

“Every morning you have two choices; radiate positive energy or radiate opposite to that. Choice is yours.”

“Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of negativity and lean forward in peace.”

“He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.”

“I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.”

“I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation.”

“I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can’t tell anyone.”

“If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for dogs, cats, and chimpanzees but doesn’t work quite so well for women and men.”

“If you want to bring the world closer to peace, be a peacemaker by creating peace whenever you can. If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.”

“If you were determined to get enjoyment out of every moment, you would learn to do whatever it took. What it takes is not listening to negative thoughts, yours or anyone else’s.”

“It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative.”

“It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have been conditioned to find positive in negative rather than suffering from the negative in negative.”

“It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.”

“Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around… Just get lost and get saved!”

“Never judge someone’s character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.”

“No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.”

“No-one ever built a statue of a critic.”

“People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one.”

“Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.”

“Revolution doesn’t have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it.”

“See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather.”

“Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.”

“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”

“The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad.”

“The incapable educational system, my mother and I were embroiled in a vicious cycle of negativity. We all suffered greatly because we were all products of an inexperienced, underdeveloped and misunderstood thought process inherited from a completely corrupt and unjust educational system.”

“The negative things people say are much more memorable.”

“There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren’t contributing to it.”

“Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.”

“Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don’t need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.”

“When someone tells me”no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”

“When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.”

There are many ways to deal with negative thoughts and negative people based on how you interact and communicate.