Prepared For The Worst Quotes

#1. Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

Maya Angelou

#2. You think Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst, but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.

Stephen King

#3. I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Stephen King

#5. I'm always prepared for the worst.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best

Lil' Wayne

#7. Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Jane Austen

#8. He who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.

Melina Marchetta

#10. I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Dominic Cooper

#11. I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

Augusten Burroughs

#12. Every actor is always prepared for the worst when it comes to work.

Sylvester McCoy

#13. God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

Frederick Buechner

#14. The worst thing about love between human beings is that when you are prepared to love them they don't want it; when they do its you who can't bear the idea.

Patrick White

#15. Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.

Thomas Merton

#16. But would the perpetual flux and reflux of individualism reduce all personality to the level of mass consciousness? Would American culture remain neither bourgeois nor proletarian, but infantile? Would the moron, instead of the meek, inherit democracy?

Ellen Glasgow

#17. Hope for the best, plan for the worst, but also try to be prepared for the unexpected.

Radovan Kavicky

#18. We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.

Vicente Fox

#19. Persian insect powder, mixed into a paste with petroleum jelly, had killed the lice in her hair, but then she'd inspected her clothes and found them infested with body lice, likely picked up from one of the walking wounded who

Jennifer Robson

#20. Today here, then there, then DEAD (IT"S A FACT, you can't do anything just take it like this.... or be prepare for the worst. Who is prepared never get suprised easy!).

Deyth Banger

#21. inch of her body was in agony. She felt like she had been flayed, and she looked like she had been

Jarred Martin

#22. When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately.

Beyonce Knowles

#23. Remember, anything worth having does not come easy.

Todd Dewett

#24. Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.

Jane Powell

#25. Every time someone opens up to me, it just feels like a gift they're giving me, because it's a chance to experience another human being.

Alison Rosen

#26. The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

Alton Brown

#27. I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.

Meghan O'Rourke

#28. How to Tell If Shoes Fit: Walking around the shoe store is not going to tell you any more than test-driving a car around a showroom. And those little mirrors? That's so you can tell how your cat is going to like your shoes. The real way to tell how shoes fit is how badly you want them.

Mimi Pond

#29. But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst.

L.M. Montgomery

#30. Plan for the worst," Grue replied, staring into the distance, "If you're right, you're prepared. If you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised.

Wildbow

#31. Prosperity is right. Amen. We prosper to prosper others. We prosper to prosper God's kingdom, so come believing.

Joseph Prince

#32. My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

Satchel Paige

#33. The fire of God comes where ever there is a sacrifice.

John Paul Warren

#34. I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

Candace Bushnell

#35. I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#36. A vision flashed across Nick's mind. It was the image of a lipstick kiss his wife left for him on the mirror that morning. It hung there like the single digit sum to the chalkboard-crammed equation of his life.

Gary Ponzo

#37. The worst thing that could happen is that we hold back and play tentative because we "fear" disappointment. If we cannot accept the possibility we might fail, we most certainly are not prepared to succeed.

Mike Margolies

#38. Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.

Shelley Jackson