A negative attitude harms a person in more ways than one. Changing it, albeit not easy, is not impossible. This is a collection of the best quotes and sayings about a negative attitude that you must read.
Negativity sucks away energy. If part of the negativity stems from your attitude or perspective, commit yourself at the beginning of each day and each activity to find something positive in yourself and in others around you. If the people around you are negative and you can’t change that, either remove yourself from the situation or view it simply as one obstacle you face in pursuing your own potential. Stay focused on your own goals and make the best of the situation.
–Terry Orlick
A negative attitude can be attributed to many failures and unpleasant situations in a person’s life. Always thinking that something will go wrong, or being in a state of despair and unhappiness all the time does not help in any way; it only serves to harm. The following is a collection of quotes and sayings about a negative attitude. Some of these are funny, some inspirational, some motivational, while some are solemn; some are long, some are short, while some are best left undescribed! You can use these quotes to help out a friend or a loved one who you think is harboring a negative attitude. These will also serve as good status updates for your Facebook page or WhatsApp profile. Put them up and let people know that you are a happy person who doesn’t like negativity!
Some Short and Sweet Quotes
In fact, you cannot have a positive, exciting life and a negative mind.
~ Joyce Meyer
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
~ Zig Ziglar
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
~ Michael Jordan
A bad attitude is the worst thing that can happen to a group of people. It’s infectious.
~ Roger Allan Raby
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
~ Scott Hamilton
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
~ Foster’s Law
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
~ Confucius
The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, always by choice.
~ Dodinsky
Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.
~ Maurice Setter
If you are not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination.
~ Unknown
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
~ Edward de Bono
Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested.
~ Helen MacInnes
A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can’t go anywhere until you change it.
~ Unknown
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
~ Charles Swindoll
And Some Long Ones
People with a positive attitude are influenced by what goes on within them. People with a negative attitude are influenced by what goes on around them.
~ Keith Harrell
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed, or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. ~ Joel Osteen
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~ Marcus Aurelius
The attitude you pose is greatly influenced by the links of friendships you bookmark. Good friends, good attitudes; best friends, best attitudes. Guess what for toxic friends…!
~ Israelmore Ayivor
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
~ Marcus Antonius
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Here Come The Laughs!
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
~ Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~ Vince Lombardi
Just because you’re miserable doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your life.
~ Annette Goodheart
Your life is your garden,
Your thoughts are the seeds.
If your life isn’t awesome,
You’ve been watering the weeds.
~ Unknown
When you feel dog-tired at night, it may be because you’ve growled all day long.
~ Unknown
Up is not an easy direction. It defies gravity, both cultural and magnetic.
~ Mike Abrashoff
I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm’s never glum.
‘Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
~ Unknown
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The world is full of cactus, but we don’t have to sit on it.
~ Will Foley
‘Twixt optimist and pessimist
The difference is droll–
The optimist sees the doughnut;
The pessimist sees the hole.
~ Wilber D. Nesbit
Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming.
~ Dodinsky
These were some saying about negative attitudes. It isn’t a nice thing to be in an unpleasant state of mind all the time; negative people miss out on the rainbow while complaining about the rain.