20 Quotes To Help You Repel Negative Influences

Negativity is all around us! Sadly, it's just something we cannot run and escape from because so many people choose to live their life operating from a negative mindset. When we arrive at our workplace each day, there are those workmates who are continuously complaining, whinging, and gossiping. When we hop on social media and the internet, there are those millions of people who love to air their negative thoughts and opinions to the world, slandering and criticizing others, constantly using these online platforms to relieve themselves of the anger and frustration that dominates their life, due to their starvation of happiness and success. When we are out with our friends, there are always those who will take the opportunity to complain about all what they don't have in life, how they believe they are a victim of their circumstances, and to gossip about others. Even when we are within the four walls of our own house, it may be our partner, our parents, our siblings, or our housemates, who are constantly moody, and who are always complaining about something. Perhaps, maybe it's you who is always complaining, whinging, gossiping, being pessimistic, being negative minded, being opinionated, and grizzling about your circumstances? As much as we may feel that it relieves us of the anger and frustrations, by whinging, sharing our opinions, and criticizing others, on social media, as much as we feel compelled to gossip about others for conversation's sake, and as much as we feel the need to release that tension of circumstances and results not going our way in life, we are only contributing to our own destruction in doing so. Negativity only ever leads us to living a negative life with continual negative results. At the end of the day, the difference between living a life filled with positivity or negativity completely rests with us. It's us personally who make the choice.

We may not be able to avoid negativity, and we may indeed have the choice in whether we wish to be positive or negative minded, but there's two things that we can do to assist ourselves to actually become and feel more positive, and they are to surround ourselves with positive minded, goals driven, and supportive people, whilst also going about eliminating the negative influences from our life. Just like we have the choice to be negative or positive minded, we also have the choice in whom we associate and spend our time with. As most people operate from a negative mindset, it's just about guaranteed that we are spending our time with many negative people, be it our partner, our friends, our parents, our workmates, or other loved ones. We need to increase our awareness around exactly who we are spending our time with, to gauge what sort of mood and mindset these people are leading us into with their presence and behavior, and identify if they are genuinely being supportive, positive, inspirational, and encouraging towards us, or not. The simple fact is, the more we spend time with negative minded people, the more likely that we too will be negative minded. It's a little thing we know as influence. Now influence can be a good or bad thing, but considering the fact that most people operate from a negative mindset, it's more likely that people are going to be negatively influential towards us. With their constant pessimism, their constant gossiping, their constant criticism, their constant judgement, their constant complaining, their constant ingratitude, their constant anger and frustration, their constant lack of support, and their constant negative outlook on life, we can easily become influenced by them, because we spend so much time with them. People have a knack of making us believe things to be factual and reality, and we feel obligated to believe them because they are often our own loved ones and friends. Why wouldn't we believe them? Sadly, even our own loved ones and friends aren't exempt from negativity either, and will often get sucked in themselves by it, leading them to become negative minded. That in turn then can so easily flow onto us.

The one sure way to tell if someone is a negative influence on your life can be found on the journey towards your goals. When we make the commitment to strive for our goal, one that is life transforming and will lead us to happiness and success, there will be decisions that we need to make, and actions that we need to take, that those around us will simply not agree with. Even though we are making these decisions, and taking these actions, for our happiness and wellbeing, which you would think those who truly love us would support us in doing, we will find they instead oppose us. The reason being is because it's not what they want for us, it doesn't fit their agenda, or it perhaps inconveniences them in some way, so they go about criticizing us, ridiculing us, mocking us, guilt tripping us, making themselves out as a victim, discouraging us, and being totally pessimistic about us the success we seek. It's extremely hard to take, when you feel that certain people would be there for you, those who you love and cherish dearly, only to have them distance themselves from you and discourage you. Anyone who ever discourages you from achieving the goals you wish to achieve, from capturing the happiness and satisfaction you desire, and from the success that you seek, is a negative influence. Those who are truly positive minded and supportive will always encourage you, support you, motivate you, inspire you, and even help you, go on to achieve the goals you desire in life. They do so because they enjoy witnessing others succeed, just as they do themselves, and they also know of the opposition one gets on the journey to success, and how sharing positivity becomes all the more important for others. Don't get drawn into gossip, don't get drawn into pessimism, don't get drawn into whinging and complaining, don't get drawn into ingratitude, don't get drawn into anger and frustration, and don't get drawn into the judgement and criticism of others towards your quest for goals accomplishment! If you allow yourself to be influenced by these negative minded people, you are surrendering your mindset, and in turn, you will be surrendering your opportunity for success and happiness. Surround yourself with positive minded, goals driven, and genuinely supportive people, so you can be lifted up, not dragged down! Don't be afraid to part ways and distance yourself from negative minded people, no matter who they are, as your happiness and future is what should be a priority in life, not pleasing others. Here are 20 quotes to help you repel the negative influences in your life, and instead, be focused on striving to achieve your goals, and a life blessed with happiness and success.

1.- "Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential."

- Marla Runyan

2.- "The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves, especially when they allow themselves to be influenced by negative people."

- Donald Trump

3.- “If you attach to the negative behavior of others it brings you down to their level.”

- Guru Singh

4.- “We don’t have to feel negative about weeds. They’re a part of life. We need to see them, acknowledge them, focus on the solution, and immediately do whatever it takes to eliminate their influence from our lives.”

- Anthony Robbins

5.- “You must resist negative thoughts, negative criticism and negative influences.”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

6.- "Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

- Booker T. Washington

7.- "Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people."

- Napoleon Hill

8.- "We change people, but often times 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."

- Michelle Gielan

9.- "In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them."

- Laozi

10.- “Avoid negative people, for they are the greatest destroyers of self confidence and self-esteem. Surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you!”

- Auliq Ice

11.- "I have removed a lot of negative influence in my life and try to surround myself with positive people. I have a much more simple life than the old days."

- Matt Sorum

12.- “Stay away from negative people They have a problem for every solution.”

- Albert Einstein

13.- “People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.”

- Hans F. Hasen

14.- “Don’t walk away from negative people – run!”

- Mark Twain

15.- "Don't naively assume that negative influences have no impact on you, they do."

- Mensah Oteh

16.- "Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?"

- Zig Ziglar

17.- "Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence."

- Jim Rohn

18.- "The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits."

- Dan Buettner

19.- “You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.”

- Joel Osteen

20.- "Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes."

- Michael Port

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