Browsing Topic Best Naysayers Quotes

So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don’t be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.

When Americans are called on to innovate, that’s what we do – whether it’s making more fuel-efficient cars or more fuel-efficient appliances, or making sure that we are putting in place the kinds of equipment that prevents harm to the ozone layer and eliminates acid rain. At every one of these steps, there have been folks who have said it can’t be done. There have been naysayers who said this is going to destroy jobs and destroy industry. And it doesn’t happen because once we have a clear target to meet, we typically meet it. And we find the best ways to do it.

I’m just remembering myself at 22 or 23. I was all engine and no steering. (Laughter) I had the wheels but I had no steering. I do think it’s true that when you’re younger, you’re more likely to listen to all the naysayers, and people are always telling you how you ought to behave and what kind of job you should get and how you should look.

Don’t worry about what people say.

If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.

Naysayers have little power over us – unless we give it to them.

Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?

Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don’t take no for an answer from anyone – go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.

I’ve always been inspired even more by any naysayers to keep going for what I really want and they’ve almost been my inspiration many times more so than any positive people around me to conquer.

Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it’s different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don’t worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.

A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

…As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

Don’t ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you’re hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You always stay true to your own principles. You always believe in your gift. God doesn’t make mistakes when he presents someone with a gift like that. It’s there for a reason. Tell the naysayers, those who reject you, to drop dead! Who cares?

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

If you don’t compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you’re no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don’t hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won’t survive.

I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. In such an atmosphere, why bother aiming high? Far too many people don’t. I just want to reassure people to have the courage to persevere, to keep following their hearts even when others scoff. Don’t be beaten down by naysayers. Don’t let the odds scare you from even trying.

We unified, we looked past and we’re impervious to the constant criticism of naysayer.

The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don’t think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I’m a true professional.

Keep moving forward, don’t listen to the naysayers, persevere, be persistent.

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can’t win because I’m a progressive… because I’m a woman… even because I’m a lesbian.

The naysayers, they don’t mean a thing.

I can’t control the naysayers. I can control my attitude and work ethic and determination and that’s what I’m focused on now.

I’ve been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I’ve had a couple of TV series. I’ve continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.

I dont’ like talking to horses because they are naysayers

I’m a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they’ve all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped – and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.

Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.