Expectation Quotes

778 Expectation quotes by 556 unique authors

You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then… — Kazuo Ishiguro
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of… — George Washington
It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in… — Mark Van Doren
One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience,… — Tariq Ramadan
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the… — Nathan Hale
The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. — Wallace D. Wattles
Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others. — Victor Manuel Rivera
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to… — George Eliot
Limit your thinking and expectation today to only the things God can do. — Louie Giglio
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. — Chuck Palahniuk
Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither… — David Richo
A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good — Sophocles
I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan
That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to… — Susan Sontag
The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice… — Joaquin Phoenix
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. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing… — 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' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and… — Judy Chu

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