Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

- Robertson, Frederick W.

Best Quotes about Expectation

1.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

2.

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

3.

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

4.

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

Charell, Ralph

5.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

6.

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

7.

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

Tracy, Brian

8.

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

Young, Andrew

9.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

10.

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

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Kennedy, John F.

17.

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

18.

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

Neal, Patricia

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

23.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

24.

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

Jordan, Michael

25.

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

Wastholm, Peter

26.

We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

27.

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

29.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

30.

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

31.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

32.

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

Waitley, Denis

33.

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

Tracy, Brian

34.

You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him.