A Quote by Helen Clark MacInnes

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

Helen Clark MacInnes

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Helen Clark MacInnes
American - Author
October 7, 1907 - September 20, 1985

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

Sarah Dessen

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

Anthony Burgess

No, I'm not (disappointed). There's no reason to be because I'm on an incredible run. You always expect a loss once in a while. So when it happens, why be disappointed if I win over 90% of my matches.

Roger Federer

"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.

Michael Johnson

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

Patricia McCormick

'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.

Michelle Dockery

Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.

Cinda Williams Chima

If you don't expect much you can't be disappointed.

Deborah Roberts

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

Tonya Hurley

If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

Anthony Burgess

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.