Expectation Quotes

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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. — Henry David Thoreau
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. — Eckhart Tolle
I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed. — Natalia Vodianova
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. — Voltaire
High expectations are the key to everything. — Sam Walton
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different. — Charles Dudley Warner
I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way. — Emma Watson
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… — Andrew Weil
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Zig Ziglar
Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given? — Viggo Mortensen
I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world… — Wendell Berry
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. — Kurt Vonnegut
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses. — Norman Vincent Peale
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… — C.S. Lewis
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. — Frederick Salomon Perls
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at… — Cormac McCarthy
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time. — Paulo Coelho
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless… — Stephen King
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it. — Sarah Dessen
And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.… — Amy Tan

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