Expectation Quotes

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Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. — Dave Eggers
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. — Francois Fenelon
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… — Emmylou Harris
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. — Seamus Heaney
I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit,… — Tom Hiddleston
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you… — Christopher Hitchens
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. — Eric Hoffer
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. — Elbert Hubbard
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they… — William Ralph Inge
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. — Ivan Illich
Expect the best, Prepare for the worst. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. — Samuel Johnson
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. — Nikos Kazantzakis
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. — Charles Kettering
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. — Anne Lamott
The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated. — Rush Limbaugh
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. — Marya Mannes
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
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,… — Orison Swett Marden
Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented… — Theresa May

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