Motivational Quotes

Expectation

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

- Niccolini, Giovanni

Best Quotes about Expectation

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Miller, Shannon

4.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

5.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

7.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

8.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

9.

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

Tracy, Brian

10.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

11.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

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

Young, Andrew

13.

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

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Ziglar, Zig

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Caddy, Eileen

20.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

21.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

23.

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

Charell, Ralph

24.

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

25.

If something can go wrong it will.

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

26.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

27.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

32.

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

Ziglar, Zig

33.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

34.

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

Jordan, Michael

35.

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

Trevino, Lee

36.

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

Wastholm, Peter

38.

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

39.

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

Wonder, Stevie

40.

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

41.

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

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

44.

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

Waitley, Denis

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Robertson, Frederick W.

48.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

49.

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

Neal, Patricia

50.

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