We’re all in the same boat when it comes to dealing with the drama, negativity, and toxic people in our lives. To that end, I’ve prepared a fabulous collection of cutting people off quotes to inspire you to take action and cut them out of your life!
Top Cutting People Off Quotes
1. “If somebody is looking for a bin to throw all their trash into, make sure it’s not in your mind.” – Dalai Lama
2. “Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.” – Will Smith
3. “Silent treatment is a great approach towards learning your worth and changing your ways towards people who did you wrong.” – Unknown
4. “The path to freedom is illuminated by the bridges you have burned, adorned by the ties you have cut, and cleared by the drama you have left behind. Let go. Be free.” – Steve Maraboli
5. “We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.” – Steve Maraboli
6. “Some people take your energy and put you in a negative place. Sometimes you just have to walk away if this is a regular occurrence.”– Rachael Malloy
7. “You don’t let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself.” – Charles Orlando
8. “When someone brings more problems into your life than happiness, it’s time to show them the door where they can exit.” – Unknown
9. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain
10. “Keeping bad company is like being in a germ-infested area. You never know what you’ll catch.” – Frank Sonnenberg
Inspirational Cutting People Off Quotes
Here are some inspirational quotes you should check out:
1. “Always know your worth and in what kind of people you’re investing your time because not everyone is worth it.”
2. “Sometimes you have to burn a few bridges to keep the crazies from following you.”
3. “Once you realize you deserve better, letting go will be the best decision ever.”
4. “Destiny determines who enters your life, but you decide who stays.”
5. “Do not allow negative people to turn you into one of them.”
6. “It’s amazing how quickly things can turn around when you remove toxic people from your life.”
7. “Negativity can change you for the worse. Don’t let the negatives take away your positives.”
8. “Learn to surround yourself with people who make you better, not bitter.”
9. “Value yourself more than the people who don’t appreciate you. Keep them in your prayers but out of your life.”
10. “Make sure everybody in your ‘boat’ is rowing and not drilling holes when you’re not looking.”
11. “Make a habit of shutting down conversations that aim to tear others down.”
12. “Positivity can change you for the best. Thus remove the people who take positivity away from you.”
13. “Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”
14. “Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.” – Israelmore Ayivor
15. “Sometimes people turn out to be toxic for our growth and such weeds need to be cut out for us to grow and bloom.”
16. ”Just removing some people from your life will always yield better tomorrows.”
17. “Hate tends to vanish when you cut negativity and negative people out of your lif.”
18. “Never be a part of that circle which talks about you behind your back. It’s always better to stay away from such negativity.”
19. “You’ll never really see how toxic someone is until you breathe fresher air.”
20. “The idea is quite simple, stay a light year away from people who make you feel less about yourself.” – Mohith Agadi
21. “When you learn how much you’re worth, you’ll stop giving people discounts.”
22. “Cutting someone completely off from your life is sometimes necessary for your peace. Don’t feel guilty about it.”
23. “Never feel guilty when you’re trying to cut someone out of your life because it’s for your ultimate good.”
24. “Not everyone is supposed to be permanent in your life. Some people come in like phases to teach us lessons and then leave or you leave them.”
25. “The less you respond to negative people, the more powerful your life will become.” – Robert E. Baine, Jr.
26. “You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.” – Chinonye J. Chidolue
27. “Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.” – Hussein Nishah
28. “If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship — you won.” – Lalah Delia
29. “Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.” – Mandy Hale
30. “Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.” – Robert Tew
31. “Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situations that threaten your peace of mind, self-respect, values, morals, or self-worth.”
32. “Over time you start noticing that some people just aren’t worth it anymore. Stay away from them.”
33. “Even a family member can be a negative person in your life and that is not always easy to accept or to do something about for your own sake. But it can become necessary to at least limit the time you spend with someone to be able to grow as a person and improve your self-worth.”
34. “I hate it when people say, “they’re still your family.” Just because someone is your family doesn’t mean you have to keep them in your life if they’re toxic. Blood means nothing sometimes. Don’t let people guilt you into being in contact with someone who isn’t good for your mental health.”
35. “Sick of the excuse ‘they’re still your mom/dad/sister/brother/friend… etc.’ No, toxic is toxic. You have the right to cut anyone off that’s unhealthy for you. Period.”
Motivational Cutting Ties Quotes
These amazing cutting people off quotes will motivate you to stay away from negativity:
1. “People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.” – Hans F. Hansen
2. “It’s okay to cut ties with toxic friends and family you’ve got to prioritize your own well-being.” – Brenden Dilley
3. “Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.” – Leon Brown“
4. “Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.” – Gift Gugu Mona
5. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” – Mahatma Gandhi
6. “Once you realize your worth, you stop going easy on those who have always been difficult on you and you make them pay for it by cutting them off.”
7. “Cutting people off doesn’t have limits. Family can get cut off too, if they are causing you stress. Eliminate any negativity from your circle.”
8. “As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.” – John Mark Green
9. “We all have those toxic people around us that make our lives miserable… The day we take them out from our lives, we will all become better people; including them…” – Rodolfo Peon
10. “Learning to ignore certain people is one of the greatest paths to inner peace. Life gets easier when you delete those who make it difficult.”
11. “People who always tend to be negative don’t have much to themselves but negativity and complaints. Move away from them and lead a happy life.”
12. “People who are negative are either lonely, broke, or bored. Better to cut them off.”
13. “You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” – Nina Simone
14. “While you can’t control someone’s negative behavior, you can control how long you participate in it.”
15. “You don’t have to feel guilty for cutting them off. It was the right thing to do. And believe me, if it were the other way around. They would have done the same thing too. Choose you, always you.” – R.M Drake
16. “There are some people who will never see you as being good enough. That is their shortcoming, not yours. Be merciful enough to yourself to cut them out of your life.” – Steve Maraboli
17. “It always amazes me how swiftly problems can be solved, once you start cutting things off people.” – Joe Abercrombie
18. “I no longer sit at tables where I might be the topic when I get up.”
19.“When being in a toxic relationship in life at times you may have to step outside yourself, to see yourself, so you can find yourself and love yourself again.” – Angel Moreira
20. “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.” – Kamand Kojouri
21. “Like arsenic, toxic people will slowly kill you. They kill your positive spirit and play with your mind and emotions. The only cure is to let them go.” – Denisse Lisseth
22. “When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don’t wait for the second time before you address it.” – Shahida Arabi
23. “Stop rebuilding bonds you didn’t break.”
24. “Start ignoring people who threaten your joy. Literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don’t invite any parts of them into your space.”
25. “We don’t get to choose our family, but we can choose our friends. With courage, we can weed out narcissistic people. We can focus on those who do appreciate us, love us, and treat us with respect.” – Dana Arcuri
26. “Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.” – Christian Baloga
27. “Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” – Anna Taylor
28. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
29. “Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless. But you’re not worthless. You’re underappreciated.” – Steve Maraboli
30. “Sometimes you have to unfollow people in real life.”
31. “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
32. “It’s not easy to detach from people you’ve had close ties with but sometimes it’s necessary in order to restore your sanity. Your peace of mind.”
33. “Never feel guilty when you try to cut someone out of your life because it’s for your own good.”
34. “Cut people out of your life with no hesitation, no explanation, and no warning if they do phony shit, or if you feel they can’t be trusted. You’re getting too old to be hanging out with people who don’t understand the concept of loyalty.”
35. “Cut off fake people for real reasons, not real people for fake reasons.”
36. “You do not cut people out of your life randomly, because you are ‘rude’ or ‘mean’ or ‘petty’. You cut people out of your life consciously, once you realize they aren’t around to add to your happiness, but rather, only to take from it. That is putting Self Love first.”
37. “You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with so be brave enough to let go of those who keep putting you down.”
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Eye-opening Toxic People Quotes
Here are some quotes that will help you understand why cutting people off is sometimes necessary to save your sanity:
1. “Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it’s a beautiful day.”
2. “Those who spend their time looking for the faults in others, usually spend no time correcting their own.”
3. “People who have no life will always try to start drama in yours.”
4. “Those who only judge others can never introspect themselves and correct their own weaknesses.”
5. “Unhappy people can be very dangerous, don’t forget that.” – S.E. Lynes
6. “When people have negative mindsets they tend to create problems even in the happiest of situations.”
7. “Toxic people create chaos, point fingers, shift blame, and avoid taking responsibility.” – Dr. Anne Brown“
8. “Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don’t question themselves. They don’t ask themselves if the problem is them. They always say the problem is someone else.” – Darlene Quimet
9. “Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked.” – Asa Don Brown
10. “Some people create their own storms and then get mad when it rains.”
Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed my collection of cutting people off quotes.
Cutting ties can be extremely difficult and moving on can be even more challenging.
A toxic environment slowly drains our energy, and sometimes we may even refuse to address the red flags as it’s often the closest people who hurt us.
Once you start prioritizing yourself, you’ll finally be able to breathe again. You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends and partners wisely.
As you’re reading this article, it’s a good sign that you’re on your way to cutting off all that drama, negativity, and unnecessary stress.
P.S. Remember – you deserve nothing but the best. Now go and get it! 🙂
Until next time!
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