Expectation And Hope Quotes

#1. When this ultimate crisis comes... when there is no way out - that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope.

Emile Durkheim

#2. Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.

Robert H. Schuller

#3. Live up to your expectation and grow up to your determination.

Debasish Mridha

#4. How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time ...

May Sarton

#5. Without any reason or expectation, love someone today and feel the joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Researchers are learning that a change in mind-set has the power to alter neurochemistry. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

Jerome Groopman

#7. HOPE AND EXPECTATION ARE NOT THE SAME THING, THOUGH BOTH WILL LEAD TO DISAPPOINTMENT. EXIST IN THE MOMENT, ACCEPTING ALL THINGS AS THEY ARE, NOT AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM BE.

Mark T. Barnes

#8. War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

Karl Kraus

#9. Advent means "coming." Note that it is an action in progress, an act not yet accomplished, one we look forward to with renewed hope. Therefore, it is a time of expectation and preparation. It is a time of waiting and watching, of preparing our hearts and minds for the coming of Jesus Christ.

Nan Lewis Doerr

#10. What does it mean to be an oncologist? It means that you get to sit in at a moment of another person's life that is so hyper-acute, and not just because they're medically ill. It's also a moment of hope and expectation and concern.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#11. Gospel optimism leads to kingdom prayer. This psalm should move us to pray - and to pray with great hope and expectation - that the kingdom of Christ will prevail against the powers of evil and that all His elect will be brought in and made holy.

Joel R. Beeke

#12. What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.
- The Evil Eye

Mary Shelley

#13. The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
Still, still on hope relies;
And every pang that rends the heart
Bids expectation rise.

Oliver Goldsmith

#14. I made plans out of hope, expectation, desire, and duct tape, and I broke those plans with my bare hands.

Jarod Kintz

#15. Love isn't the expectation that eventually you'll end up in heartache; it's the expectation that you can fully trust another human being with everything and still hope for a happy ending.

Rachel Van Dyken

#16. When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

William Shakespeare

#18. The name of God is the name of the chance for something absolutely new, for a new birth, for the expectation, the hope, the hope against hope (Rom. 4:18) in a transforming future. Without it we are left without hope and are absorbed by rational management techniques.

John D. Caputo

#19. Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Eric Hoffer

#20. I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

Anthony Minghella

#21. We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Ivan Illich

#22. I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

H.P. Lovecraft

#23. She now lost every expectation of pleasure. They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself

Jane Austen

#24. She had covered herself in frost, so every part of her grew cold and would not feel, because of that single part that longed to hear that word, yet had never known the hope, or expectation, that it would.

Shehanne Moore

#25. faith is not hope, not a mere expectation of future things, but a present receiving of that which is promised in a real and substantial way. It is accepting, not expecting.

A.B. Simpson

#26. When you love and it hurt, love more and love without expectation.

Debasish Mridha

#27. It's never too late to try a new approach to learning anything, and just because one has no expectation doesn't mean one has no hope.

Stephanie Kallos

#28. [Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.
[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]

Chapman Cohen

#29. Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.

Robert Kennedy

#30. Wade walked into the room. "I hope you two girls are playing nice?"
"If by, hope, you mean, a feeling of expectation, and desire for a particular thing to happen, then no," Grace answered.

Patti Roberts

#31. We must not confuse conformity to religious expectation and culture to an actual growth in intimacy with our Lord and maturity of our faith.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#32. I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation.

Tommy Franks

#33. Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.

William Wordsworth

#34. If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#36. The figure of the passing-away world, 1 Cor. vii. 31. is like an old man's face, full of wrinkles, and foul with weeping: we are waiting when Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, and shall come and wipe the old man's face.

Samuel Rutherford

#37. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden

#38. Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Ambrose Bierce

#39. Time and time again people showed better qualities than we might dare to hope for, sometimes against all expectation.

Alexander McCall Smith

#40. Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

Debasish Mridha

#41. Biblical hope is the confident expectation that God is willing and able to fulfill the promises he has made to those who trust in him.

Lee Strobel

#42. With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before.

Henry David Thoreau

#43. Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

Joyce Meyer

#44. The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

Sophocles

#45. When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Anne Lamott

#46. When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.

Paulo Coelho

#47. To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

Oliver Goldsmith

#48. Life is beautiful not because it is always so joyful, but because desire, hope, and expectation makes it so wonderful.

Debasish Mridha