Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Expectation

1.

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

2.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

3.

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

Young, Andrew

4.

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

Trevino, Lee

5.

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

6.

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

Seneca

7.

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

8.

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

Robertson, Frederick W.

9.

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

Tracy, Brian

10.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

11.

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

Miller, Shannon

12.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

15.

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

Waitley, Denis

16.

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

17.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Lee, Bruce

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Charell, Ralph

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Kennedy, John F.

25.

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

Wonder, Stevie

26.

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

Neal, Patricia

27.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

28.

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

29.

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

Wastholm, Peter

30.

We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

31.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

32.

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

33.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

34.

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

Caddy, Eileen

35.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

36.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

37.

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

39.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

40.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

41.

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

Ziglar, Zig

42.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

If something can go wrong it will.

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

44.

Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

45.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Waitley, Denis

46.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

47.

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

48.

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

Jordan, Michael

49.

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

50.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam