Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

Best Quotes about Expectation

1.

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

Seneca

2.

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Johnson, Samuel

3.

If something can go wrong it will.

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

4.

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

Neal, Patricia

5.

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

6.

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

Young, Andrew

7.

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

Waitley, Denis

8.

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

9.

We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

11.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

12.

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

Charell, Ralph

13.

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

Jordan, Michael

14.

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

15.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

16.

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

17.

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

19.

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

Tracy, Brian

20.

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

21.

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

22.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

23.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

24.

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

Miller, Shannon

25.

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

Trevino, Lee

26.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

29.

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

Caddy, Eileen

30.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

31.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

32.

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

Tracy, Brian

33.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Proust, Marcel

37.

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

Kennedy, John F.

38.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

39.

Prospect is often better than possession.