Famous Negativity Quotes

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.
-- Grandma Axiom

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
-- Rita Mae Brown

A fault is sooner found than mended.
-- Ulpian Fulwell

A fighter has to know fear.
-- Cus Damato

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
-- Dorothea Brande

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
-- Morris Bender

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
-- William Nazlitt

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.
-- Tom Hobson

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
-- Dr Hans Selye

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
-- Christian Nevell Bovee

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.
-- Hilaire Belloc

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
-- Max L Forman

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
-- Bobby Hull

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
-- H G Bohn

Anger cannot be dishonest.
-- George R Bach

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
-- Edward F Halifax

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
-- Thomas Fuller

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
-- Clarendon

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
-- G S Hillard