Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.
Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.
I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
When you are exposed to others' negativity, you do not need to respond. You can choose to put your attention elsewhere and let their words be a tiny drop in the infinite ocean of your peaceful silence.
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.
But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact
I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?
Words have power, and if you are going to use your words negatively, then that is exactly what is going to happen in your life.
It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.
Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.
Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.
Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you'll only remember the one bad one.
I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over. So when the rude or cruel thing is said - the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate - I say, "Take it all out of my house!" Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they'll be on my skin.
Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
I don't want to hear the word 'can't.'
Words do cut, and they do hurt. It was one thing growing up where you were bullied, but you'd just come home. Now you can't really escape it. It's to a point where you turn off that phone, you live your life, and you try not to let the words of others offend or stop you from being you and living your life.
God loveth not the speaking ill of any one in public.
Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
