Expectation Quotes

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

Good is not good where better is expected

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

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

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
Frances Burney

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
Samuel Alexander

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
Giovanni Niccolini

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

People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
Richard Thalheimer

Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

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

Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
John Akers

High expectations are the key to everything.

It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

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

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.







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