Expectation Quotes

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs

William Howard Stein

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Elbert Hubbard

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation

Charlotte Bronte

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Henry David Thoreau

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.

Mary Kay Ash

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Michael Jordan

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Shana Alexander

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

Elbert Hubbard

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.

Jack Nicklaus

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations

Elliott Larson

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Fritz Perls

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

Eli Khamarov

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Ralph Marston

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Henry Louis Mencken

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian

Dennis Wholey

I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.

Dalai Lama

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

Ralph Charell

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson

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

Stephen Hawking

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