Expectation Quotes

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When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the… — Dale Carnegie
In public administration good sense would seem to require the public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize the eventual… — John Kenneth Galbraith
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting… — Samuel Johnson
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… — David Baldacci
Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants.Â An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go… — Matthew Henry
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Boys' connectionsâ€”to other people and to their selvesâ€”can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and… — Judy Chu
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an… — Stephen Jay Gould
When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you… — Neale Donald Walsch
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite… — Grover Cleveland
Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its giving. This is… — Walter Russell
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… — John O'Hurley
Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you… — Sivananda
Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make… — Sheryl Sandberg
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. — Bill Bradley
Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already… — Shane Claiborne

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