Quotes about expectation

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

Poe, Edgar Allan on expectation   

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

Proust, Marcel on expectation   

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

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

Robertson, Frederick W. on expectation
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"I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on expectation   

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

Seneca on expectation   

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

Slaney, Mary Decker on expectation   

"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."

Speare, Grace on expectation   

"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."

Sweetland, Ben on expectation   

"We expect everything and are prepared for nothing."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on expectation   

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

Thalheimer, Richard on expectation   

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

Tracy, Brian on expectation
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"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."

Tracy, Brian on expectation   

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

Trevino, Lee on expectation   

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

Unknown, Source on expectation   

"Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders."

Unknown, Source on expectation   

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

Unknown, Source on expectation   

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on expectation   

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

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

Waitley, Denis on expectation   

"Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise."

Walker, Alice on expectation
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"High expectations are the key to everything."

Walton, Sam on expectation   

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

Wastholm, Peter on expectation
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"You can't base your life on other people's expectations."

Wonder, Stevie on expectation   

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

Young, Andrew on expectation   

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

Ziglar, Zig on expectation
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"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner."

Ziglar, Zig on expectation