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When you're trying to achieve a goal, negative people will just bring you down. Surround yourself with the positive.
Oct 1, 2025
It is easier to avoid the effects of others' negativity when we question if an action or attitude is appropriately directed at us. If it isn't, we can choose to sidestep it and let it pass.
Surround yourself with supportive people. All the negative people, man you have to push them aside.
Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.
I don't look to the negative people because the only people who ever tell you that you can't do something are the ones who haven't done it themselves... the ones who failed.
Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment.
Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.
As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.
Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.
Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.
When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you.
We change people, but oftentimes we get so focused on the negative people and their influence on us, we forget how powerful we are as positive people to influence others.
I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.
When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you
I don’t think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that’s something that’s really interesting to watch.
Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves, especially when they allow themselves to be influenced by negative people. That's what gives rise to dictators. Avoid that at all costs. Stop it first on a personal level, and you will have contributed to world sanity as well as your own.
Don't let negative people determine your self-worth.
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.
Negative people will always criticize
Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.
God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.
Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.
My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.
Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it'll take their breath away.
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.
If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them.
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are a lot of negative people who were enormously determined. All the Nazis were determined. They wanted to murder everyone. Everyone with a bad heart, who doesn't care about people, I wish they hadn't started.
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.
Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.
Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.
Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.
Be happy. It really annoys negative people.
Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.
The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running.
Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.
I don't like any kind of negativity. I try to be good to everyone, whether it's a love, a friend, an ex. I'll always try to treat people the way I want to be treated.
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.