Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

Best Quotes about Expectation

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

Robertson, Frederick W.

2.

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

3.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

4.

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

Waitley, Denis

5.

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

Wonder, Stevie

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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

7.

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

Charell, Ralph

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

Tracy, Brian

9.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

10.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

11.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

12.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Ziglar, Zig

16.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

17.

If something can go wrong it will.

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

18.

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

20.

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

Wastholm, Peter

21.

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

22.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

23.

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

24.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

25.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

26.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

27.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

29.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

30.

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

31.

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

Young, Andrew

32.

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

Caddy, Eileen

33.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

Ziglar, Zig

36.

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

Miller, Shannon

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

Tracy, Brian

38.

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

39.

Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

40.

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

Trevino, Lee

41.

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

Jordan, Michael

42.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

44.

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

Seneca

45.

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

46.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

48.

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Neal, Patricia