Expectations Quotes

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.

Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling.

Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?

I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.

Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.

For every sacrifice, there is an expectation of reward.

Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations.

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.

What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

One must not expect every thing.

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

Living happily is a matter of choosing to fulfill the positive demands of your inner-self over your societal expectations.

Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.

It takes a lot of confidence, and self-love and self-worth to realize that you are capable. And that you have every right to leave your lane, and to do things in the same way that other people do.

Giving without expectations is the ultimate secret source of abundance.

Positive expectations create a positive life.

Life will fulfill your expectations.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Your success does not depend on who you are but what you are and the strength of your expectations.

Desire great things in life.Expect great things in life.