Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Expectation

1.

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

Ziglar, Zig

2.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

3.

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

4.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

5.

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

Tracy, Brian

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Kennedy, John F.

9.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

10.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

11.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

12.

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

Seneca

13.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

14.

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

Charell, Ralph

15.

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

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.

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

Wastholm, Peter

18.

If something can go wrong it will.

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

19.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

20.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

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

Jordan, Michael

22.

We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

23.

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

Waitley, Denis

24.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

25.

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

Hazlitt, William

26.

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

Caddy, Eileen

27.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

28.

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

Miller, Shannon

29.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

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.

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

Robertson, Frederick W.

32.

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

33.

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

Wonder, Stevie

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

39.

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

Trevino, Lee

40.

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

41.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

42.

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

43.

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

Young, Andrew

44.

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

45.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

46.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

47.

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

Ziglar, Zig

48.

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