Negativism Quotes

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

In a national campaign you are driven to negativism.

We just can’t be the party of NO. We have to be the party of solutions.

We're in a political environment of competing pessimisms today.

Cynicism has its own zealots.

This country is being killed by people who try to break us down, tear us down and make us little when we have to be big.

Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon negativism as prudence and inferiorities as humility. Strip off those false cloaks and see these attitudes in their nakedness - as enemies of you and of your possibilities.

There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.

Maybe 50 or 60 percent of all divorces are predicated on someone's being physically unfit. Who wants to live with negativism? Love goes out the window.

The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.

In society at large, … nostalgia can distort our understanding of the world in dangerous ways, making it needlessly negative about our current situation.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

It is the champions of "left wing liberal socialism" who shape the tendency towards falsifying the history of socialism. They try to make us believe that the country's past was nothing but mistakes and crimes, keeping silent about the greatest achievements of the past and the present.

There is always someone who is going to look for the cracks.