Motivational Quotes

Expectation

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

- Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Best Quotes about Expectation

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

2.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

3.

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

Robertson, Frederick W.

4.

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

5.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

6.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

7.

If something can go wrong it will.

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

8.

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

Charell, Ralph

9.

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

10.

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

Wastholm, Peter

11.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

13.

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

Proust, Marcel

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Tracy, Brian

17.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

18.

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

Young, Andrew

19.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

20.

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

21.

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

Neal, Patricia

22.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

23.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

24.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

26.

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

Trevino, Lee

27.

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

28.

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

Hazlitt, William

29.

We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

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

Miller, Shannon

31.

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

34.

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

Caddy, Eileen

35.

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

Waitley, Denis

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

37.

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

38.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

39.

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

40.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

41.

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

Seneca

42.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

43.

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