Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Expectation

1.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

2.

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

Caddy, Eileen

3.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

4.

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

6.

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

Hazlitt, William

7.

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

8.

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

Waitley, Denis

9.

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

10.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

11.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

Neal, Patricia

14.

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

Jordan, Michael

15.

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

Ziglar, Zig

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

19.

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

Robertson, Frederick W.

20.

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

21.

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

Miller, Shannon

22.

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

Tracy, Brian

23.

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

Wastholm, Peter

24.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

25.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

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

Proust, Marcel

31.

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

32.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

33.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

34.

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

Trevino, Lee

35.

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

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

If something can go wrong it will.

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

39.

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

Young, Andrew

40.

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

Kennedy, John F.

41.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

42.

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

43.

Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Charell, Ralph

47.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

48.

Prospect is often better than possession.