Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

- Poe, Edgar Allan

Best Quotes about Expectation

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

If something can go wrong it will.

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

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Young, Andrew

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

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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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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 begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

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

Jordan, Michael

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Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

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

Seneca

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

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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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High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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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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Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

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

Charell, Ralph

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

Tracy, Brian

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We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Prospect is often better than possession.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Miller, Shannon

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

Wastholm, Peter

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By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

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Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

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In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

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

Wonder, Stevie