Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

Best Quotes about Expectation

1.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

2.

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

Ziglar, Zig

3.

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

4.

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

5.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

6.

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

7.

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

Wastholm, Peter

8.

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

9.

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

11.

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

12.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

13.

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

Wonder, Stevie

14.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

15.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

16.

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

17.

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

Caddy, Eileen

18.

We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

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

Tracy, Brian

20.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Tracy, Brian

22.

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

23.

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

Neal, Patricia

24.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

25.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

26.

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

Seneca

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Robertson, Frederick W.

30.

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

Trevino, Lee

31.

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

Jordan, Michael

32.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

37.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

Proust, Marcel

39.

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

Miller, Shannon

40.

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

Kennedy, John F.

41.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

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

Ziglar, Zig

43.

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

44.

Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

45.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

46.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Waitley, Denis

50.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl