Top 68 Quotes About Expect The Worst
#1. Expect the worst and you can't be disappointed. Optimism is the luxury of the young, the foolish and the dullard.
Luke Scull
#2. If you expect the worst from people, that's exactly what you'll get.
Michelle Hodkin
#3. 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
#4. I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.
Semir Zeki
#5. They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'
Rima Fakih
#6. Hope for the best. Expect the worst. Plan for both.
Joanna Bourne
#7. But I guess you learn to stop hoping, after a while. Life teaches you to expect the worst, eh?
Joe Abercrombie
#8. I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
Antony Beevor
#9. Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.
James Patterson
#10. If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.
Sarah Dessen
#11. If you constantly expect the worst from someone, that's probably what you're going to get.
Courtney Cole
#12. It is right to hope for the best about everybody, and not to expect the worst. This sounds like a truism, but it has comforted me before now, and some day you'll find it useful. One has always to try to think more of others than of oneself, and it is best not to prejudge people on the bad side.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#13. I promise, when you always expect the worst, you will not be disappointed.
Charles F. Glassman
#14. Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
Mel Brooks
#15. I'm not a prince, my life has not been charming. I know to expect the worst out of everything and everyone.
Victoria Aveyard
#16. Trusting others is all good and well, but distrusting them is better. People are rotten so always expect the worst in them. This way, when people don't turn out as bad as you thought they'd be, you'll be pleasantly surprised. It's a lot better than being disappointed. Also,
R Shaw
#17. I think sometimes when we grew up with a parent who is deeply flawed ... we learn, subconsciously at least, to expect the worst from everyone else as well ... Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that way forever. We can learn to see with new eyes if we try.
Mindy Starns Clark
#18. Expect the worst
And that's what
You'll get
Only it will be
Much worse.
J.P. Donleavy
#19. If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
Anthony Burgess
#20. When you always expect the worst you can never experience the best.
Jayce O'Neal
#21. With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.
Sarah Dessen
#22. Look," he said, "the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst."
If you expect the worst, you're never disappointed," I pointed out.
Yeah, but who lives like that?
Sarah Dessen
#23. Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.
Sarah Dessen
#24. Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.
Veronica Roth
#25. I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.
Gene Sarazen
#26. I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.
Rebecca McNutt
#28. Don't expect to achieve your best
while you expect the worst.
Change your attitude and be
a little more positive.
Great things are coming your way.
Be patient.
Leon Brown
#29. If you expect the worst, you can only be suprised
Peter Edwards
#31. It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including myself.
James S.A. Corey
#32. When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.
Jennifer Bosworth
#33. I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.
Meg Rosoff
#34. I've learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.
Dan Brown
#36. Well, we're going to need to expect something." Hunter stated.
"I suggest we expect the worst." Gwen announced.
Meghan Blistinsky
#37. I am my own worst enemy
I only feel beautiful when I am holding my son
Always expect the worst, that way you're never let down
Bill Norris
#38. Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.
Gary Busey
#39. The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.
William Julius Wilson
#40. Expect nothing in life and prepare for the worst so all the good things in life are blessings
Myself
#41. In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!
Edgar Wallace
#42. When we surrender to apathy and expect the world to deliver everything to us, we deliver ourselves to a slow death and we sacrifice the best of our potential to the worst of our decisions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#43. I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.
Ray Toro
#44. Bah! you wish to hear a man tell of his worst actions, and you expect the story to come out goody-goody! One's worst actions always are mean. We
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#46. Optimism research teaches us that we should expect the best and have a contingency plan for the worst.
Paul Dolan
#47. Expect the best, plan for the worst and prepare to be surprised.
Dennis Waitley
#48. He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget-expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come.
Gary Paulsen
#49. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and expect the impossible.
Lara Whatley
#50. This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah Arendt
#51. Other countries spend, on average, only about one-half of what the U.S. spends per capita on health care. Isn't it reasonable, therefore, for us to expect our system to rank above theirs? Unfortunately, among these twelve countries, the U.S. system is consistently among the worst performers.
T. Colin Campbell
#52. When you expect something from your self and your own self disappoints you ... this is what i call a real disappointment . The worst disappointments comes from in-within.
Sameh Elsayed
#54. When things are fantastic, it's hard not to expect that the worst is waiting to pounce on you from a dark corner.
Penny Reid
#56. While it was understandable to be afraid, and no one would expect you not to be, the worst thing you could do was to run from the trouble you had caused. No matter how accidental it was, you didn't try to deny it. You didn't run. You did what you must to right it.
Terry Goodkind
#57. The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
Bernard Baruch
#58. We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
Luc De Clapiers
#59. If you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing that the worst is going to happen ... You can't expect an easy victory after one protest march.
Noam Chomsky
#60. 'Expect the best, but prepare for the worst.' I'm good at the first part, crap at the second.
Justine Larbalestier
#61. Theano: Always expecting the worst, you are.
Danae: If you expect terrible things, then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.
Adele Geras
#62. This is the best and worst part about having a friend who's so close to you. You know what to expect from them, and they know what to do to get a reaction out of you.
K. Bromberg
#63. the worst happens when you least expect it
Dean Koontz
#64. You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
John Fowles
#65. The food in the hostel mess is worst of a kind. The grief in my words reach easily to those who have "been there and done that" Chapatti in the meal is either so uncooked or overly cooked and you can only expect dal in the ocean of water when you are ready to swim.
Parul Wadhwa
#66. At least with my father, the danger was out in the open. I knew what to expect. But Auntie Cath is a different kind of dark altogether.
The worst kind.
The kind made from love.
Dawn Kurtagich
#67. Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. It was a peculiar life skill and one I had gotten damn good at.
James Anderson
#68. For, even the preachers have begun to tell us that God is radium, or ether or some scientific compound, and that the worst we wicked ones may expect is a chemical reaction.
O. Henry
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
