Expectation Quotes
We usually get what we anticipate.
Confucius
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Congreve, William
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
Disraeli, Benjamin
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
Eliot, George
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Frankl, Viktor
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
Hubbard, Elbert
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Johnson, Samuel
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Johnson, Samuel
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Jordan, Michael
You have to expect things of yourselves before you can do them.
Kettering, Charles F.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Khamarov, Eli
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
La Rochefoucauld, François
Our desires always disappoint us; forthough we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Larson, Elliott
Anger always comes from frustrated expectations.
Lincoln, Abraham
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
Lubbock, John
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Marden, Orison Swett
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Marston, Ralph
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.
Milne, A.A.
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
Nightingale, Earl
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Perls, Fritz
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.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Seneca
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Thoreau, Henry David
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Tracy, Brian
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tracy, Brian
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
Tracy, Brian
Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.
von Goeth, Johann Wolfgang
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.