Motivational Quotes

Expectation

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

- Neal, Patricia

Best Quotes about Expectation

1.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

DeVos, Richard M.

2.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

3.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Miller, Shannon

4.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Kennedy, John F.

7.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

Young, Andrew

8.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

9.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

10.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Hazlitt, William

11.

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

Slaney, Mary Decker

12.

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

Thalheimer, Richard

13.

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

Lee, Bruce

14.

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.

Anderson, Greg

15.

Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

16.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

17.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

18.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

19.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Poe, Edgar Allan

20.

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.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

22.

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

Tracy, Brian

23.

Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

24.

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.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

25.

Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.

Wastholm, Peter

26.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Jordan, Michael

27.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

28.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

29.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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.

Cockburn, Claud

33.

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

Robertson, Frederick W.

34.

We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Tracy, Brian

36.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Ziglar, Zig

37.

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.

Cayce, Edgar

38.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

39.

If something can go wrong it will.

Murphy's Law, (Edward A. Murphy, Jr.)

40.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.

Gretzky, Wayne

41.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Wonder, Stevie

42.

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.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level...

Caddy, Eileen

44.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

45.

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

46.

In order to win, you must expect to win.