Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

Best Quotes about Expectation

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

Seneca

If something can go wrong it will.

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

Prospect is often better than possession.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

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

Wonder, Stevie

11.

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

Trevino, Lee

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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

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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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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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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

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We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wastholm, Peter

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Charell, Ralph

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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 will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Tracy, Brian

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