QUOTES ABOUT EXPECTATIONS

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ~Charles F. Kettering

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Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. ~Aesop

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Anger always comes from frustrated expectations. ~Elliott Larson

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Men… are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. ~Frederick W. Robertson

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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. ~Greg Anderson

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In order to win, you must expect to win. ~Richard Bach

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

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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

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

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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. ~Heraclitus

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Whether we be young or old, our destiny, our being’s heart and home, is with infinitude, and only there with hope it is, hope that can never die, effort and expectation, and desire, and something evermore about to be. ~William Wordsworth

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High expectations are the key to everything. ~Sam Walton

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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers 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. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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You begin by always expecting good things to happen. ~Tom Hopkins

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We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. ~Anonymous

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Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood. ~Anonymous

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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ~Charlotte Bronte

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When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have. ~Stephen Hawking

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

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

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There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. ~Kingman Brewster

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I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. ~Frank Sinatra

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Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. ~John F. Kennedy

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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out. ~Orison Swett Marden

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I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped. ~Frederick Perls

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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

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

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

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure. ~Oscar Wilde

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

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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 quotes

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Expect victory and you make victory. ~Preston Bradley

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The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov

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

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

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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. ~Claud Cockburn

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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. ~Leo F. Buscaglia

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Life… it tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. ~Richard DeVos

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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. ~Henry Louis Mencken

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

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What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. ~Benjamin Disraeli

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If your expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it. ~Malcolm Forbes

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If your expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it. ~Malcolm Forbes

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

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Prospect is often better than possession. ~Thomas Fuller

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

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Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs. ~William Howard Stein

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I don’t have high expectations anymore. Maybe they’ve just been beaten out of me. ~Lisa Shue

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Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate. ~Lionel Suggs

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Peace begins when expectation ends. ~Sri Chinmoy

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Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife; certainly in my wife! ~Georgette Heyer

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I asked her to wear something revealing, so she showed up in a prophet’s toga. ~Jarod Kintz

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When people starts to enjoy a writer’s pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations. ~A. Saleh

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I’ve always liked rooms where the party hasn’t started yet… I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there’s usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn’t all you’d hoped it to be. ~Jillian Lauren

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I can’t imagine going on when there are no more expectations. ~Dame Edith Evans

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He expected to much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life. ~Anne Frasier

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She was heavier than he expected – women always are. ~Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations. ~Santosh Kalwar

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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement. To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: “This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.” ~Alan Bennett

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Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. ~Lionel Shriver

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Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed. ~Samuel P. Huntington

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The boxer had two black eyes. But that’s to be expected, since he was from Africa. ~Jarod Kintz

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I am afraid I shall disappoint people’s expectations dreadfully. ~Jude Morgan

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It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. ~Victoria Moran

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He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. ~Robert Jordan

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You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception… you see what is, where most people see what they expect. ~Tsitsi Dangarembga

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Nowadays, I don’t have expectations, and this way she beats them all. ~Jodi Picoult

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I hope I don’t write too many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself “When did they live?” I certainly want to write because I live. I know I don’t want to write in order to live. My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations. ~C. JoyBell C.

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