Quotes About Not Assuming The Worst

#1. This approach has enabled Japanese firms to achieve such production efficiency and quality that now many non-Japanese companies are imitating them. By not assuming the worst about their workers, the Japanese companies have got the best out of them.

Ha-Joon Chang

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

George W. Bush

#3. I will never get girls. You're so instantly competitive, always assuming the worst about each other.

Jennifer Hillier

#4. You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

Alexander McQueen

#5. 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

#6. Christian holy duty is to know the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst
assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values.

Barack Obama

#8. She came through the door the moment my beer arrived. Fortyish, salon-blonde, spray tan, fake boobs and real diamonds. Anywhere else it would be a bimbo alert, but in Florida it was just protective coloration.

C.I. Dennis

#9. I used to feel afraid of the future, always assuming the worst. But now I've realized that my worst fears have already happened, and I've survived them! I've walked into the fire and made it out alive. Only the loss of a close loved one could have "woken me up" to reality in the same way.

Elizabeth Berrien

#10. I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Ha-Joon Chang

#12. Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.

Gary Ackerman

#13. What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

Olympia Snowe

#14. Stop assuming the worst. Give others the benefit of the doubt.

Walter E. Jacobson

#15. Nothing is but what is now

Ron Rash

#16. If we had learned anything concrete by now, we had learned this: we weren't alone. There are other like us out there. People that think they're just strange or different or troubled or depressed or sick, They might just be. But they might also be something more. They could become one of us.

Michelle Hodkin

#17. I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a difference, that you would again. Dwelling on the worst was no way to live.

Gwenda Bond

#18. Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#19. I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#20. The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

Alan Dershowitz

#21. There are some people who will surprise you with their perseverance ... People who survive through the tears ... Strong spirits who prove you wrong if you make the mistake of betting against them.

Steve Maraboli

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

Iron & Wine

#23. Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.

Lev Grossman

#24. As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!'

Jeff Lynne

#25. You only get to be my age by assuming the worst." Mr. Wednesday, American Gods

Neil Gaiman

#26. 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

#27. In college, I was a cartoonist at 'The Daily Northwestern.' So I draw myself. I was an animator. But basically, I went to Northwestern to major in English, wound up in college for two years. Studied animation there. Came to Disney. My first week at Disney was the week that 'Star Wars' came out.

John Musker

#28. F-A-I-T-H: Forsaking all, I trust him.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#29. We all have something redeemable in us, no matter how small. - Laura Armstrong, A Human Element

Donna Galanti

#30. They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

Richard Branson

#31. All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Plato