Expectation Quotes
778 quotes by 556 authors
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I found that to build mental toughness, you need to inconvenience yourself. The early morning runs, if you hate early mornings. The late night runs,…
— Chael Sonnen
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The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up.
— Unknown Author
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Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing…
— Epicurus
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Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual…
— Sam Keen
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It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and…
— Charlotte Selver
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To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose…
— Timothy Keller
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No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.
— Frank Bolles
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The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.
— Bryant H. McGill
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But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our…
— Eusebius
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I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates…
— Joseph Sittler
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We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every…
— Amanda Lindhout
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The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against…
— Gloria Steinem
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There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no…
— Taylor Caldwell
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There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.
— John Ruskin
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People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is…
— Roger Ebert
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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
— Robert Penn Warren
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