Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
— English Proverbs
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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst;
expect the best; and take what comes.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors. I was not able to do it as a politician or a businessman. My writing did it. And it sure makes me feel good! I'm mentally prepared for the worst, but hopeful for the best. I think I have the moral victory.
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
If you don’t prepare, you could lose everything.
If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you’ve lost nothing.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Prepare for the worst so the best will happen
Look for the best, prepare for the worst, and take what comes.

If Party of Five hadnt done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if Time of Your Life doesnt do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the worst. This is a very fickle business.
there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism.
Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.
It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.
Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.

Because Conor McGregor is so confident - he goes there 'I'll beat this, I will do that' - If I would be his coach I will tell him all the time, behind closed doors, how dangerous [Nate] Diaz is and how much of a war this fight will be and how painful, and long, and uncomfortable it would be, and to get prepared for the worst day of his life.
I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.
hope for the best, prepare for the worst

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
I think we need to prepare for the worst, and so I support energy efficiency measures.
There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.

The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things.
It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.
...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.
Plan for the worst, expect the best.

There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life.
There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.
I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.
The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.
Obviously in the next few months we have got to do everything that we can to make sure that Donald Trump, who in my view is the worst, least-prepared candidate for president in my lifetime. Number two, we've got to obviously elect Hillary Clinton.