Negativity Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

250 Negativity Quotes
“In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.”
Geoffrey F. Fisher Quotes
“To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.”
Bernard M. Martin Quotes
“Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.”
Galeazzo Ciano Quotes
“It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.”
Eric Hoffer Quotes
“If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.”
Damien Cannon Quotes
“Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.”
Scott Alexander Quotes
“People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.”
Bernard Mandeville Quotes
“A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.”
Morris Bender Quotes
“Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.”
Edward M. Forster Quotes
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
Roberta Flack Quotes
“There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.”
Robert Burdette Quotes
“The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.”
John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
“All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.”
Hilaire Belloc Quotes
“Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.”
Nathaniel Emmons Quotes
“I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.”
Alistair Grant Quotes
“Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.”
Tom Hopkins Quotes
“People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.”
Stuart Briscoe Quotes
“As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.”
Thomas Guthrie Quotes
“In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.”
King Charles I Quotes
“Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.”
Olga Korbut Quotes
“In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.”
Walter Lippmann Quotes
“It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.”
Max Frisch Quotes
“Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.”
Henry H. Haskins Quotes
“To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.”
James Allen Quotes
“Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.”
Frank Burford Quotes