Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Expectation

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

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

Jordan, Michael

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

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Miller, Shannon

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

Ziglar, Zig

If something can go wrong it will.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

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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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Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wastholm, Peter

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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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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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Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

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

Seneca

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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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One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Charell, Ralph

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High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

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We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

46.

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

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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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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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Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice