(1084 quotes found)
“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Walt Whitman
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Zig Ziglar
“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”
Dale Carnegie
“I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
Walter Anderson
“This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.”
Charlie Brown
“The worst is death, and death will have his day.”
William Shakespeare
“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise”
Benjamin Franklin
“The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency”
Elihu Root
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .”
Charles Dickens
“We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away”
Walker Percy
