Expectation Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Ramakrishna

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.
Tony Bright






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