Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
Michael Jordan
“No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.”
Wayne Dyer
“Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don’t want to be.”
Hugh Dillon
“Your beliefs, either positive or negative, helpful or hurtful, largely determine everything you do and how you do it.”
Brian Tracy
“People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.”
Eckhart Tolle
“When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.”
Allan Lokos
“Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.”
John C. Maxwell
“There’s a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I’ve always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.”
Zac Efron
“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.”
Lucy Dacus
“You can’t think away your self-defeating thoughts; you have to dissolve them through action.”
Marty Rubin
“The best way out is always through.”
Robert Frost
“If you find yourself complaining a lot then you are problem-oriented. Focus on what you can do – not on what you can’t – to become solution-oriented.”
Akiroq Brost
“Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.”
Carrie Brownstein
“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
Thomas Edison
“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”
David Lynch
“Just as negative beliefs at some point entered your subconscious mind, and began to subtly shape your lives, new, positive beliefs can also be “planted” there: beliefs that will gradually begin to improve your behavior, your thinking, the way you feel, and thus, your life”
David Bolton
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”
Robert H. Schuller
“If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.”
Allu Arjun
“Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form, and you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul.”
John O’Donohue
“It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.”
Mary J. Blige
“Here is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?”
C. JoyBell C.
“If your thoughts are negative, you’ll probably attract negative events into your life. You will see the bad, not the good. The reverse is also true in that thoughts of creating a positive life find their origin in a positive mind.”
Byron Pulsifer
“However vast the darkness, we must supply it with our own light.”
Stanley Kubrick
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
