Top 100 Quotes About Expectation
#2. The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.
Wallace D. Wattles
#3. Mistakes are lessons in disguise and accurate reflections of your true state. Maybe you need to slow down. Maybe your initial expectation was actually what was wrong. Maybe you need to draw more often.
Danny Gregory
#4. Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of who each person might become.
Jaron Lanier
#5. There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
Emma Thompson
#6. Here is what Muslims and Muslim organizations are expected to say: "As a Muslim, I condemn this attack and terrorism in any form." This expectation we place on Muslims, to be absolutely clear, is Islamophobic and bigoted.
Max Fisher
#7. It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed.
Steven Magee
#8. I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.
Semir Zeki
#9. Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.
Kurt Vonnegut
#10. Lila:Humprey,Im feeling so cross right now!
Hump:why?
Lila:cauze I was disappointed with the movie,the book is much better,now they destroyed my expectation to the book
Hump:A good advice,some books are meant to be watch,some are not He smiled
Lia Veron
#11. Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide ... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.
Warren Farrell
#12. I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!
Stephen Sondheim
#13. The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.
Marie Bashkirtseff
#14. Japanese are one of the most punctual people he had ever worked with. They could, he imagined, put the Germans to shame in their high expectation for timeliness.
Vann Chow
#16. I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.
Emma Watson
#17. 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
#18. Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.
Billy Graham
#19. Act without expectation.
Laozi
#20. When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.
Catherine Deneuve
#21. Wherever the Gospel is proclaimed, there should be an expectation of immediate results, and if this were the case the Church of Christ would be in a constant state of grace.
D.L. Moody
#22. Let holy preparation link hands with patient expectation, and we shall have far larger answers to our prayers.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#23. Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.
Nina George
#25. FEAR is "False Expectation Appearing Real". It creates dangers where there are none and holds you back from getting things done.
R.v.m.
#26. You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation.
Jeffrey Lurie
#27. Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others.
Victor Manuel Rivera
#28. I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.
Philip Schultz
#29. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
#30. It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.
John Goodlad
#31. I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.
Johnny Depp
#32. I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?
Jane Austen
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.
Susan Sontag
#36. Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#37. Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny,
Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy,
Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation,
Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal elation.
Jasper Fforde
#38. If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.
Mark Spitz
#39. Success is the delivery of a product that meets expectation
James Leal
#40. The very essence of love is love itself without any other expectation.
Debasish Mridha
#42. The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.
Andrew Weil
#43. But there is a beauty even in loving without response because that kind of love is truly selfless. When we love with no expectation or promise of reciprocity, we know what it means to sacrifice and deny ourselves in ways we wouldn't otherwise.
Matt Chandler
#44. By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
Terence McKenna
#45. Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.
Lee Ellis
#46. Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.
Catherine Booth
#47. Maybe I went a bit too far, but that's what people want now. There's an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature. Everyone wants to see children treated badly. So that ... well, so that when they triumph over evil we all feel lifted up. It's inspirational.
Tony Burgess
#48. The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.
Louie Giglio
#49. I don't see coach job stressful, I really don't. Of course, there is pressure and expectation, but I wouldn't necessarily equate that with stress.
Brendan Rodgers
#50. 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
#51. In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.
Sharon Salzberg
#52. When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
Jodi Picoult
#53. And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.
Tony Dungy
#54. [She] looked as if her nerves were quivering with the expectation that something would be thrown at her. But she never had anything worse than words to dread.
George Eliot
#56. I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
Natalia Vodianova
#57. Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.
Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.
Idries Shah
#58. 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
#59. With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.
John Dramani Mahama
#60. The expectation of a reward or evaluation, even a positive evaluation, squelched creativity.
Eric Weiner
#61. I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
Alexander Hamilton
#63. We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy.
Rush Limbaugh
#64. A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.
Donalyn Miller
#65. There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.
Joyce Carol Oates
#66. To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
Thomas A. Edison
#67. Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.
Michael Josephson
#68. I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
Jonathan Sacks
#69. If appearance is only a trick of the nerves, and apparition is only a lesser trick of the nerves, a less perfect illusion, then this expectation, this sense of a presence unperceived, was not particularly illusory as things in this world go.
Marilynne Robinson
#70. 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
#71. The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expectation that love will be unconditional, but obviously it's not - even after living with someone for years.
Kim Gordon
#72. Still, I knew from that first moment that my tour on the Enterprise was going to be something special." He shrugged. "The name carries that level of expectation, you know?
Dayton Ward
#73. To free yourself from the emotional rollercoaster, have an expectation that events will be as they are going to be. Learn to accept things the way they are and do not expect events to be how you want them to be.
Allan Willis
#74. Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.
Josh Trank
#75. My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction.
Barack Obama
#76. Prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
Ambrose Bierce
#77. Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
Linda Tripp
#78. I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.
Lorin Maazel
#79. I think that one must approach the Logos Savior, not induced by the fear of punishment and not in the expectation of some kind of a reward, but primarily for the sake of the good in itself. Such will stand on the right in the sanctuary.
Clement Of Alexandria
#80. The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
Beth Simone Noveck
#81. I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.
Mackenzie Davis
#82. 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
#83. When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.
Bryan Cranston
#84. Approach each session as an occasion to practice being with another without expectation.
Harold Dull
#85. You can't alter your DNA and meet that expectation, so get over it. You are what you are.
Orson Scott Card
#86. The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).
Laozi
#87. What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
Chuck Palahniuk
#88. 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
#89. It gives us more flexibility, so we can do more, but it also creates the expectation of the instant response. It can take away your sense of control over your time.
Ellen Galinsky
#90. When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
Dean Koontz
#91. People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#92. but on this night
the universe is crawling
on skin soft with expectation
and I have untied silk rhymes
lifting the bluebird's cleavage
you might as well have caged it
between your colored doubts
Silva Zanoyan Merjanian
#93. In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Robert South
#95. We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone's feelings.
Mary Blakely
#96. 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
#97. In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.
Kofi Annan
#98. Limit your thinking and expectation today to only the things God can do.
Louie Giglio
#99. My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
Kevin Kwan
#100. Remember, healing through forgiveness takes place in the soul and subconscious, not by a face to face confrontation that ends in hugging and tears of joy. In fact, chances are that would never happen anyway, so you are setting yourself up for failure if that is your expectation.
Sharon Critchfield
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