Expectation Quotes
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He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were. (Quote by - Sir John Suckling)
We tend to live up to our expectations. (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion (Quote by - Florence Nightingale)
Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa, When that dull distance shall no more divide us; And I no more shall scale thy wall by night To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. (Quote by - Edward de Bono)
Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. (Quote by - Andre Breton)
Everything comes if a man will only wait. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. (Quote by - Nikos Kazantzakis)
I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover; And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. (Quote by - Ralph Marston)
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. (Quote by - May Sarton)
I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. Th' imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Yet doth he live! exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
All earthy delights are sweeter in expectation than enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than expectation (Quote by - Owen Feltham)
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. (Quote by - Michael Howard)
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
High expectations are the key to everything. (Quote by - Sam Walton)
It is a city of fantasy, as Dostoyevsky called it, and sometimes, adrift amid so much beauty, one almost shares the expectation he described. (Quote by - Anthony Austin)
Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. (Quote by - Archbishop Richard Whately)
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs (Quote by - William Howard Stein)
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)
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. (Quote by - John Akers)
Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent. (Quote by - Judith Guest)
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. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. (Quote by - Jack Nicklaus)
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. (Quote by - Shana Alexander)
What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Even though we are the home side, the pressure will be on England. I can't remember how long it is since they reached the final of a leading tournament, so there will be so much expectation on them now. (Quote by - Shane Warne)
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. (Quote by - Eli Khamarov)
'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. (Quote by - James Thomson 1)
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. (Quote by - Confucius)
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing. (Quote by - Anne Sophie Swetchine)
I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed. (Quote by - John Walcot)
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
