Motivational Quotes

Expectation

We tend to get what we expect.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Expectation

1.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Trevino, Lee

2.

It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

3.

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

Robertson, Frederick W.

4.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

5.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

6.

Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

7.

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

DeVos, Richard M.

8.

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

9.

Expect victory and you make victory.

Bradley, Preston

10.

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

Slaney, Mary Decker

11.

If something can go wrong it will.

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

12.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Hopkins, Tom

13.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Niccolini, Giovanni

14.

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

Kennedy, John F.

15.

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

16.

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

Hazlitt, William

17.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Bright, Tony

18.

Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent.

19.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Walton, Sam

20.

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

21.

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

Wastholm, Peter

22.

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

Young, Andrew

23.

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

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.

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

Miller, Shannon

26.

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

Jordan, Michael

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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

31.

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

Caddy, Eileen

32.

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

Wonder, Stevie

33.

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

34.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

35.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Walker, Alice

36.

Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?

Seneca

37.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

Sweetland, Ben

39.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Nightingale, Earl

40.

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

Neal, Patricia

41.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Bach, Richard

42.

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

43.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Waitley, Denis

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

Charell, Ralph

47.

We tend to get what we expect.

Peale, Norman Vincent

48.

A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Proust, Marcel

49.

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

50.

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

Gretzky, Wayne