Expectations Quotes

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Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself. — Shannon Miller
It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out… — Jade Edmistone
One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live… — Tiger Woods
Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service; take it into… — John Ellerton
It's the time to make choices you can be proud of. It's the time to be the best version of yourself and in the process,… — Erin Foster
The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations. — Deepak Chopra
Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short. — Shannon Miller
The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. — Sally Ride
The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward… — Andrew Weil
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm… — Dalai Lama
It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to… — Lucy Larcom
Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As… — Daniel J. Siegel
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones. — Baron de Montesquieu
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was. — John Suckling
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you. — Robert Frost
It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit. — William Dean Howells
Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos. — Tom Stoppard
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen
Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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