Naysayers Quotes

“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Don't think that just because you made it to the next level that the haters and naysayers disappear. Remember, new levels bring new devils.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.”
― Tim Fargo

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
― John Locke

“Develop a can-do-spirit and be sure you are not suppressed by the naysayers whose daily actions are meant to discourage you from achieving what you believe.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“Let go of the naysayers who only serve to bog you down with negative messages, and find positive people who are excited about your future prospects. Some people were only meant to be a part of one aspect of your journey. If you can’t take them with you into the next phase of your life, then that’s okay; they have served their purpose. Don’t look back, and don’t overthink it.”
― Keisha Blair, Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness

“Perception is everything. If you see everything through the lens of the naysayers or through a victim perspective, then it’s hard to get what you really want in life.”
― Keisha Blair, Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness

“The term naysayers is how I refer to the people and social forces who tap into negative thinking and undermine your belief in your own ability to create holistic wealth.”
― Keisha Blair, Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness

“If you listen to critics for too long, you will become deaf to success.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.”
― Pearl Cleage, Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do

“Removing toxic people (including Naysayers) from your life can repay you in scores of holistic wealth.”
― Keisha Blair

“Naysayers can't prevent your brilliance and purpose from entering the world. It will seep under doors like water flooding into a room. Its shafts will beam through windows like dazzling rays on a bright, summery morning. Within the sunlight are galaxies and constellations filled with opportunities for you to take. All you have to do is create the environment for its manifestation and keep striving, keep going.”
― Keisha Blair, Holistic Wealth (Expanded and Updated): 36 Life Lessons to Help You Recover from Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose, and Achieve Financial Freedom

“Bring Down The Walls

I will bring down the walls
that surround me today.
I will no longer be kept quiet
Meek enough to drown today....”
― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution

“I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“When others tell you, 'you can't', they actually fear that you can and are even more afraid that you will.”
― Cherie White

“Give yourself a pat on the back for getting mocked by those who have never tried their hands at anything.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“Thankfully existing only in SMALL pockets within our discipline, is “intellectual” snobbery. It’s a hushed but ugly truth that people are made to feel not worthy to be among a certain set – didn’t attend the right school or don’t have the requisite abbreviations to follow their name. I know what that feels like. Good thing I'm pigheaded, have a bigger vision and committed to my craft, or I would’ve succumbed to it long ago. That is why when I meet an emerging writer who’s serious about developing their craft, I try to encourage them as much as I can. I say IGNORE the highbrow cliques and prove your mettle by growing, accepting balanced feedback and most of all, creating work that will stand the test of time. Period.”
― Sandra Sealy

“Testimony in new age writing affirms the way in which embracing a love ethic transforms life for the good. Yet a lot of this information only reaches those of us who have class privilege. And often, individuals whose lives are rich in spiritual and material well-being, who have diverse friends from all walks of life who nurture their personal integrity, tell the rest of the world these things are impossible to come by. I am talking here about the many prophets of doom who tell us that racism will never end, sexism is here to stay the rich will never share their resources. We would all be surprised if we could enter their lives for a day. Much of what they are telling us cannot be had, they have. But in keeping with a capitalist-based notion of well-being, they really believe there is not enough to go around, that the good life can only be had by a few.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“The bigger the bricks critics throw at you the bigger the palace you are going to build.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening any more.”
― Florence Griffith Joyner

“Ignore donkeys and other naysayers!”
― Mary Buchan, Over iT: How to Live Above Your Circumstances and Beyond Yourself

“sing so loud that the music
drowns out the sounds of
the naysayers.
one day they’ll be singing
your song.”
― JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon, Getting Lost

“Things that will make you unstoppable;
Get the naysayers out of your life,
Take charge of your destiny,
Be uncommon,
Be relentless, and
Never look backwards.”
― Germany Kent

“It is plain directionless to want to conquer your odds and reach your Goals just to prove a point to the Naysayers. Do it instead for the satisfaction and Joy of you and those that believe in you. Train your Focus!”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“Don't ever believe the naysayers when they say your ideas are unrealistic, they are just to small minded to see all the big possibilities that you see in this world.”
― Cliff Hannold

“Do something so grand with your life that you can speak out loud to the naysayers, not with arrogance, but with self-respect - "if you die, you'll be forgotten in a week, like any other animal on earth, but when I die, my name will be an inspiration to thousands of generations to come.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Some people get a lot of pleasure from sharing their success with those who were adamant that they would not or would never succeed, but get very little or even no pleasure from sharing their success with those who have supported them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There’s always a choice and that choice begins with words—the stories people tell you and the stories you tell yourself. How you choose to build the foundation of your life will determine how well it stands up against the naysayers who try to trip you up.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“There are always those people wringing their hands and groaning about their failures as if always caused by other people or circumstances beyond their control. They rant about why things can’t be done. Hah! People actually doing those very things repeatedly interrupt the naysayers! That is not only fun, but also it makes the discipline and effort of doing the right things even more satisfying and personally rewarding.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Healthy Thinking Habits: Seven Attitude Skills Simplified

“They will sit around and gossip with others about you but they will not sit around with you to talk about it.”
― Niedria Kenny