Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Expectation

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

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

Jordan, Michael

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

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

Seneca

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

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Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

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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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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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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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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

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High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

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Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Miller, Shannon

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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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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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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 expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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You begin by always expecting good things to happen