Expectation Quotes

778 Expectation quotes by 556 unique authors

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. — Oliver Goldsmith
Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment. — Robert Fripp
There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner... — Teju Cole
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
You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out.… — Lupe Fiasco
All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation. — Pat McBride
Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content.… — Dorothy Day
When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant… — Marilynne Robinson
What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when… — Henry David Thoreau
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
The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up. — Unknown Author
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
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
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
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time. — Frank Bolles
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
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
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
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
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
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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