We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.
Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.
I assume that the worst will happen. So I'm never optimistic.
An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.
Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.
Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.
Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
I know that there are many people who are hoping that things don't go well for me.
I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.
It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.
If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.
My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.
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.
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.
One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.
I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.
And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
