Expectation Quotes

778 Expectation quotes by 556 unique authors

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
The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing… — John Mellencamp
Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what… — Joyce Meyer
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. — Margaret Mitchell
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something… — Lyn Nofziger
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves… — Henri Nouwen
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please… — Chuck Palahniuk
I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level… — Danica Patrick
It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view. — Kevin Pietersen
It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important… — Emily Procter
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so… — Ramakrishna

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