Quotes about expectation

"Don't count your chickens before they are hatched."

Aesop on expectation
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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."

Anderson, Greg on expectation
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"In order to win, you must expect to win."

Bach, Richard on expectation
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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 on expectation   

"Expect victory and you make victory."

Bradley, Preston on expectation   

"One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation."

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

Caddy, Eileen on expectation
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"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."

Cayce, Edgar on expectation   

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

Charell, Ralph on expectation   

"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."

Cockburn, Claud on expectation   

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

DeVos, Richard M. on expectation
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"What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens."

Disraeli, Benjamin on expectation
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

Eliot, George on expectation
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on expectation
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"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on expectation   

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

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"Good is not good, when better is expected."

Fuller, Thomas on expectation
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"Prospect is often better than possession."

Fuller, Thomas on expectation   

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

Gretzky, Wayne on expectation   

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

Hazlitt, William on expectation
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"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 on expectation
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"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."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on expectation   

"You begin by always expecting good things to happen"

Hopkins, Tom on expectation   

"Life is largely a matter of expectation."

Horace on expectation
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"We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for."

Hubbard, Elbert on expectation
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"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."

Johnson, Samuel on expectation   

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

Jordan, Michael on expectation
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"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."

Kennedy, John F. on expectation
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"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

Perls, Fritz Dr. on expectation
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"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on expectation   

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

Marden, Orison Swett on expectation   

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

Maugham, W. Somerset on expectation
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"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself."

Miller, Shannon on expectation
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"When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen."

Morgan, John Pierpont on expectation   

"If something can go wrong it will."

Murphy's Law, (Edward A. Murphy, Jr.) on expectation   

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

Neal, Patricia on expectation   

"By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible."

Niccolini, Giovanni on expectation   

"We tend to live up to our expectations."

Nightingale, Earl on expectation   

"We tend to get what we expect."

Peale, Norman Vincent on expectation   

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

Peale, Norman Vincent on expectation
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