Top 100 Quotes About Expectation Life
#1. When each moment becomes an expectation life is deprived of fulfillment, and death is dreaded for it seems that here expectation must come to an end.
Alan W. Watts
#3. Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.
Hector Berlioz
#4. The lower your expectation the easier and happier your life will be
Dee Dee Artner
#5. The best way is to accept the reality for what you have rather than to run after or curse the reality for what you don't have ... Respect, love and care those who are with you !!!!!!!
Anonymous
#6. Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments?
Eva Heller
#7. I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations.
Parul Wadhwa
#8. And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back
if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?
C.S. Lewis
#9. You want to change your life fast? Then trade your expectation for appreciation; you'll have a whole new life.
Tony Robbins
#11. The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.
Oprah Winfrey
#12. Without any reason or expectation, love someone today and feel the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#13. The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.
Saib Tabrizi
#14. There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.
Emmylou Harris
#15. If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
Cate Blanchett
#16. I have a relatively sunny spirit, and I always had the expectation that my path through life would be relatively sunny, no matter what happened. I have never allowed myself to be bitter.
Angela Merkel
#17. Live up to your expectation and grow up to your determination.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Don't let the unmet expectation to imprison your mind and ruin your life.
Euginia Herlihy
#19. A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera)
There's no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. Life is beautiful not because it is always so joyful, but because desire, hope, and expectation makes it so wonderful.
Debasish Mridha
#21. The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#22. 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
#23. Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies.
Pamela Cummins
#24. I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.
Charlotte Eriksson
#25. He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing
Mary Robison
#27. Having faith and belief in my inner guidance allows me to see the world in a way that strengthens that faith and belief and brings with it a life filled with welcomed expectation and awe.
Charles F. Glassman
#28. Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.
George MacDonald
#29. There's only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it's probably best not to know. It allows one to work without expectation. Best to let the poem do the thinking while we concern ourselves with what's called the personal life.
Russell Edson
#30. Optimism is an expectation that good things are going to be plentiful. The wealthy generally have the sense that life will bring good rather than bad outcomes. That doesn't mean they believe that good things will be omnipresent, but that they will outnumber the not-so-good.
Jean Chatzky
#31. An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence.
Dee Dee Artner
#33. Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
William Congreve
#34. Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation ... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of your life, how you integrate them is how you find true happiness.
Denise Morrison
#35. Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Homer
#36. 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
#37. When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.
John O'Hurley
#38. I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#39. Our culture has the expectation that the memories of a happy childhood will somehow ground you and prepare you for adult life. But what about the memories that cut, that wound, that won't heal?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#40. Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
Ralph Marston
#41. When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
Dean Koontz
#42. I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
Howard Schultz
#43. What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
Chuck Palahniuk
#45. The very essence of love is love itself without any other expectation.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.
David Baldacci
#47. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
#49. I sometimes feel my entire life is a series of accidents and chances- not that I am complaining. One can be very happy having relinquished all expectation of control.
Kate Morton
#50. 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
#51. Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
Brian Tracy
#52. What we call "imperfections" are illusions caused by expectation. They are a psychological warning that we are not seeing true potential, but self- imposed limitation.
Steve Maraboli
#53. When you give without expectation, you will always have more to give away.
Debasish Mridha
#54. I had no expectation. I had no expectation of goin' anywhere in my life. I had no expectation of ever amounting to anythin'. I didn't expect you. I didn't expect us." "Ayuh?
Lex Chase
#55. Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.
Brandon Sanderson
#56. People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#57. I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.
Anne Lamott
#58. Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
Roger Bannister
#59. No one else can make you happy, and putting that expectation on the other will doom both of you. You don't look at someone and say, "You can make my life better." You look at someone and say, " I can make your life better." Be a blessing, not a burden.
Penelope Douglas
#60. The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
Sam Abell
#61. Our understanding of God's love must be more profound than the naive expectation of a carefree life.
Francis Chan
#62. I've learnt something more. The expectation of a body can last as long as any hope. Like mine expecting yours. As soon as they gave you two life sentences, I stopped believing in their time.
John Berger
#63. This life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.
Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
#64. Looking around, I wonder what is it that makes my fellows able to bear such a life. How can they face the day, when I can't? Is there some secret to living that makes its conditions irrelevant? A neutering of expectation, a mastery of the mundane? Or have they just grown accustomed to rape?
D.B.C. Pierre
#65. The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life
Mohammed Naseehu Ali
#66. A truly great life. That is what humanity deserves. Not an average life, not even a normal one-a life in which genius is not an anomaly but an expectation. But to achieve such things
Madeleine Roux
#67. If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
Bryan Cranston
#68. You have neat, tight expectation of what life out to give you, but you won't get it. That isn't what life does. Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. EVERY SEED DESTROYS ITS CONTAINER OR ELSE THERE WOULD BE NO FRUITION.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#69. And he was beginning to feel that discouragement which is engendered by a life of repetition, when no interest guides nor expectation sustains it.
Gustave Flaubert
#70. I'm reminded of how wonderful grace is. We simply accept its healing, loving presence. We allow its sweetness to fill us and nourish us. The only expectation is that we accept it. What acts of grace have appeared in your life? How might you extend grace to those you know?
Laurie Brock
#71. Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation.
Debasish Mridha
#73. I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I don't allow anybody's expectation to weigh on me. I have my own expectation of life. I believe in letting people be free.
Ester Dean
#74. Love and help others unconditionally without expectation you are creating in effect, this creation will multiply for you in a million ways.
Ana Maria Frith, Limitless: Change Your Life
Ana M Frith
#75. Expectation is an anchor, a heavy burden every man is to first carry and then overcome if he is to ever reach the shorelines of his dreams.
Peter S. Fogg
#76. The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, 'you can keep on burning!
Dada Bhagwan
#77. Thinks that it is a poor sort of life that has not known expectation, the pleasure of savoring ahead. So enjoy it while you have it, he tells himself.
Penelope Lively
#78. I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously, like it was something happening at telescopic distance. Like something I was looking at through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.
Wally Lamb
#79. To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.
Neale Donald Walsch
#80. Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#81. The measure of life is not by success you achieve, but by the donation you made without expectation to receive.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Be not anxious;yesterday is your experience, today is your experiment and tomorrow is your expectation. Maximize the time!
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#83. To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces - desire, belief, and expectation.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#84. We can learn only in the expectation of life. Europe is too preoccupied with its destruction to concern itself with such things. A condemned man is interested only in himself, the passage of hours and such intimations of immortality as he can conjure from the recesses of his mind.
Eric Ambler
#85. Don't give a gift with the expectation to get,
but if you have a gift, always try to give.
Debasish Mridha
#86. If your expectation of God's Word in your life has been small, I ask you to consider giving it far more credit. Second Timothy 3:16 (NIV) says, "All Scripture is God-breathed," so don't just read it like any other inspirational or instructional text. Inhale it!
Beth Moore
#87. You get in life what you create. Expectation drives the creative process. What do you expect? You expect whatever it is you're thinking about. Your thought process, the conversation in your head, is at the base of the results you create in life.
Darren Hardy
#88. The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.
H.W. Brands
#89. Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it.
Steve Maraboli
#90. Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!
Fulton J. Sheen
#91. Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance
Francine Rivers
#93. Blaming others for your low self-esteem, for your lack of money, for being overweight, or for feeling bad, is NOT going to make your life better. Take responsibility. Work on it. The choice is yours.
Maddy Malhotra
#94. When you love and it hurt, love more and love without expectation.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Maybe the real freedom is in letting go of the what-ifs. Choosing hopeful expectation over worry that life is going to shortchange you.
Melissa Tagg
#96. The expectation of future glory and the joy of future redemption has its counterpart here and now in the implications for the present life of the believer.
Henry R. Van Til
#97. That was a time of innocence, a time when life was on hold. When life was carefree. The only expectation was to be a good boy. No grand ambitions. No long-range goals to mold your existence around. Not then.
Jared C. Wilson
#99. For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.
Alanis Morissette
#100. For the rest of his life he would yield to circumstance and expectation, coming to call these strange weights duty.
Richard Flanagan
