Assume The Worst Quotes

#1. To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting doing nothing. It is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. To wait is to "rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7).

Max Lucado

#2. Why do you always assume the worst?

E.L. James

#3. It's strange how just the sound of my dad's feet, the murmur of his voice, can change everything. Thing is, for all I know he could be in a good mood. It's just that I've learned to assume the worst.

Kevin Waltman

#4. Maybe we should always assume the worst.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.

Barack Obama

#6. Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.

Ha-Joon Chang

#7. It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning ... and let anything better come as a surprise.

Jules Verne

#8. But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt."
"You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you.

Sarah Dessen

#9. We have every reason to assume the worst.

George W. Bush

#10. I know that whenever I see some goon energetically mouthing the words to a song I can't hear, I assume the worst: Creed

John Sellers

#11. We all assume the worst the best we can.

Iron & Wine

#12. Are we quick to respond to others' needs? Do we run from problems or face them? Do we talk more about bad news or good news? Do we give people the benefit of the doubt, or do we assume the worst? The

John C. Maxwell

#13. Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental capacity.

Emma Paul

#14. my personal life philosophy is always to assume the worst, then you're never disappointed.

Felicia Day

#15. I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#16. A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.

Deborah Harkness

#17. It's better to think the best of everyone and be wrong than assume the worst and be right.

A. Lee Martinez

#18. I know I shouldn't introduce my own memoir with this amount of insecurity, but my personal life philosophy is always to assume the worst, then you're never disappointed. BAM! Highlight that previous sentence, baby!

Felicia Day

#19. Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#20. We worried for her. We tend to assume the worst, here in Willesden. We watched her watching the shuttlecock. Pock, smash. Pock, smash. As if one player could imagine only a violent conclusion and the other only a hopeful return.

Zadie Smith

#21. Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we're left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.

Sandra Oh

#22. The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.

Andrew McEwan

#23. Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there.

Cassandra Clare

#24. I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.

Janina Gavankar

#25. Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.

Ronald Knox

#26. One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.

Mike Krzyzewski

#27. True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Samuel Smiles

#28. Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.

James Dobson

#29. My Life's Worst Scenario

It's when people assume that they know you, even without trying to get to know you, and they judge you from my action without knowing the reason behind it...

Lenz

#30. It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

Ludwig Von Mises

#31. We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Brooks Atkinson