Quotes about expectation

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

— Aesop

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

In order to win, you must expect to win.

— Richard Bach

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

Expect victory and you make victory.

— Preston Bradley

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

— Tony Bright

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

— Eileen Caddy

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.

— Edgar Cayce

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

— Ralph Charell

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

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

— Richard M. DeVos

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Good is not good, when better is expected.

— Thomas Fuller

Prospect is often better than possession.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Wayne Gretzky

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

— William Hazlitt

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

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.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

— Tom Hopkins

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

— Horace

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Michael Jordan

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Fritz Dr. Perls

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.

— Orison Swett Marden

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

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Shannon Miller

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

— John Pierpont Morgan

If something can go wrong it will.

— Jr.) (Edward A. Murphy Murphy's Law

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

— Patricia Neal

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

— Giovanni Niccolini

We tend to live up to our expectations.

— Earl Nightingale

We tend to get what we expect.

— Norman Vincent Peale

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Marcel Proust

Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.

— Proverb

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

— Frederick W. Robertson

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Seneca

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

— Mary Decker Slaney

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

— Grace Speare

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.

— Ben Sweetland

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

— Anne Sophie Swetchine

People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.

— Richard Thalheimer

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Brian Tracy

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

— Brian Tracy

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

— Lee Trevino

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

— Source Unknown

Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— Denis Waitley

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

— Denis Waitley

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

— Alice Walker

High expectations are the key to everything.

— Sam Walton

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

— Peter Wastholm

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Andrew Young

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

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Zig Ziglar

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

— George Eliot