Expectations Quotes

Expectations Quote of the day

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

One must not expect every thing.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

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I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

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

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

We cannot all be masters.

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

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

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

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

If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

Result won’t come if we don’t provide the reason for it to come.

Expectations have no effect on the harvest.

Only crazy people don’t do anything new and they expecting new result.

She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility.

Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest.