Gray Davis Quotes

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.

Something will turn up.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

I'm an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

So what if right now everything is wrong?

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best

When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.