Motivational Quotes

Expectation

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

- Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Best Quotes about Expectation

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proust, Marcel

Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

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

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Jordan, Michael

10.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

13.

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

Robertson, Frederick W.

15.

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

Seneca

16.

If something can go wrong it will.

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

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

Wastholm, Peter

18.

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

Young, Andrew

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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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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

21.

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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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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

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

29.

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

Neal, Patricia

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Ziglar, Zig

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One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

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In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

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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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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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We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

40.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Miller, Shannon

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

46.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Tracy, Brian

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By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

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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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Prospect is often better than possession.

Fuller, Thomas