Motivational Quotes

Expectation

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Expectation

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Hubbard, Elbert

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Miller, Shannon

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Kennedy, John F.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.

Gretzky, Wayne

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

Young, Andrew

Prospect is often better than possession.

Fuller, Thomas

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.

Charell, Ralph

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When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Hazlitt, William

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Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level...

Caddy, Eileen

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Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

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Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

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Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Proust, Marcel

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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Neal, Patricia

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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Tracy, Brian

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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Wonder, Stevie

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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much -- if he lives and uses that in hand day by day -- shall be full to running over.

Cayce, Edgar

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If something can go wrong it will.

Murphy's Law, (Edward A. Murphy, Jr.)

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If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Heraclitus

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Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Anderson, Greg

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You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

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In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

Cockburn, Claud

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The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

Sweetland, Ben

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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Tracy, Brian

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Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?

Seneca

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I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Trevino, Lee

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Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.

Wastholm, Peter

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Jordan, Michael

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Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Ziglar, Zig

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High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

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You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

DeVos, Richard M.

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People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.

Thalheimer, Richard