“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
“If you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will.”
This is attributed to Lincoln in the 1960 film adaptation of Pollyanna. In reality, it was fabricated by screenwriter and director David Swift, who had to have thousands of lockets bearing the false inscription recalled after Disney began selling them at Disneyland.
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Abraham Lincoln 618
16th President of the United States 1809–1865Related quotes
Variant: If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
Source: Vanishing Acts
“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.
Voces (1943)
“Redemption is never where you expect to find it.”
Source: Fire and Ice
“For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.”
Paddy Blake's Echo; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 56.