expectation

1.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

- Jordan, Michael

2.

Don't be content by just beating others expectations, beat your own expectations as well. And you should expect nothing less but to win.

- Beau M. Jackson

3.

Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

- Steve Jobs

4.

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

- Robertson, Frederick W.

5.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

- Nightingale, Earl

6.

Prospect is often better than possession.

- Fuller, Thomas

7.

We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.

- Edward Sellner

8.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

- Bono, Edward De

9.

I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

- Washington, George

10.

It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

Christianity alone deprives old age of its bitterness, making it the gate of heaven. Our bodies will fade and grow weak and shapeless, just when we shall not want them, being ready and in close expectation of that resurrection of the flesh which is the great promise of Christianity (no miserable fancies about "pure souls" escaped from matter, but)--of bodies, our bodies, beloved, beautiful, ministers to us in all our joys, sufferers with us in all our sorrows--yea, our very own selves raised up again to live and love in a manner inconceivable from its perfection.

- MS. 1842.

12.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see -- not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

- Lapham, Lewis H.

13.

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

- Slaney, Mary Decker

14.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

15.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

- Hopkins, Tom

16.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.

- Jack Nicklaus

17.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

- Swetchine, Anne Sophie

18.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

- Ziglar, Zig

19.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

- Niccolini, Giovanni

20.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

- Johnson, Samuel