Motivational Quotes

Expectation

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

- Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Best Quotes about Expectation

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

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

Seneca

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

Charell, Ralph

10.

If something can go wrong it will.

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

11.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

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

Miller, Shannon

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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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In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Jordan, Michael

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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

25.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

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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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We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Prospect is often better than possession.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Robertson, Frederick W.

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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

34.

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

35.

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

Wastholm, Peter

36.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

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

Young, Andrew

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

Ziglar, Zig

41.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

42.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom