Joyce Meyer Quotes

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

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can't expect things must always go your way.

I just don't get my hopes up. I don't expect too much from people in the league because you just never know what could happen.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

I don't believe in happy endings.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.