Expectation
» “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.”
– Aesop
» ”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.”
– Greg Anderson
» ”In order to win, you must expect to win.”
– Richard Bach
» ”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
» ”Expect victory and you make victory.”
– Preston Bradley
» ”One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.”
– Tony Bright
» ”Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level…”
– Eileen Caddy
» ”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.”
– Edgar Cayce
» ”Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.”
– Ralph Charell
» ”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.”
– Claud Cockburn
» ”Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.”
– Richard M. DeVos
» ”What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
» ”Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”
– George Eliot
» ”How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
» ”If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
» ”Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
– Benjamin Franklin
» ”Good is not good, when better is expected.”
– Thomas Fuller
» ”Prospect is often better than possession.”
– Thomas Fuller
» ”I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.”
– Wayne Gretzky
» ”The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.”
– William Hazlitt
» ”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
» ”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.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
» ”You begin by always expecting good things to happen”
– Tom Hopkins
» ”Life is largely a matter of expectation.”
– Horace
» ”We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.”
– Elbert Hubbard
» ”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.”
– Samuel Johnson
» ”You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
– Michael Jordan
» ”Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”
– John F. Kennedy
» ”I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
– Bruce Lee
» ”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.”
– Orison Swett Marden
» ”We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.”
– Orison Swett Marden
» ”It’s a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
– W. Somerset Maugham
» ”Other people may not have had high expectations for me… but I had high expectations for myself.”
– Shannon Miller
» ”When you expect things to happen — strangely enough — they do happen.”
– John Pierpont Morgan
» ”If something can go wrong it will.”
– Edward A. Murphy, Jr.) Murphy’s La
» ”A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”
– Patricia Neal
» ”By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.”
– Giovanni Niccolini
» ”We tend to live up to our expectations.”
– Earl Nightingale
» ”If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
» ”We tend to get what we expect.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
» ”Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
» ”A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer’s leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.”
– Marcel Proust
» ”Don’t cross the bridge till you come to it.”
– Proverb
» ”Men… are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.”
– Frederick W. Robertson
» ”I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
» ”Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?”
– Seneca
» ”I’ve always got such high expectations for myself. I’m aware of them, but I can’t relax them.”
– Mary Decker Slaney
» ”Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.”
– Grace Speare
» ”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
