Expectations Quotes
1983 quotes by 1389 authors
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Sport that consumed me for over two decades . . . is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to…
— Clara Hughes
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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
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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…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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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…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of…
— Lawrence Kohlberg
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early…
— Mae Jemison
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God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
— Matthew Henry
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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
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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
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It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and…
— Emma Watson
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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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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
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Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
— Peter Senge
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Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
— Stephen Covey
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Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good…
— Ken Blanchard
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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
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On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.
— Dustin Penner
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The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group. Choose your peers wisely.
— Tony Robbins
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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
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