Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

- Morgan, John Pierpont

Best Quotes about Expectation

1.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

2.

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

3.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

4.

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

Young, Andrew

5.

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

Proust, Marcel

6.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

7.

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

8.

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

Neal, Patricia

9.

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

10.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

11.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

12.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

13.

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

Waitley, Denis

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

17.

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

18.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

19.

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

20.

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

Kennedy, John F.

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

23.

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

24.

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

Robertson, Frederick W.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Trevino, Lee

29.

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

30.

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

Caddy, Eileen

31.

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

32.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

33.

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

Tracy, Brian

34.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

35.

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

Wastholm, Peter

36.

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

Charell, Ralph

37.

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

38.

If something can go wrong it will.

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

39.

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

Hazlitt, William

40.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

41.

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