Expectations Quotes

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Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their… — Barbara Ehrenreich
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. — Francois Fenelon
I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your… — Lupe Fiasco
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to… — Tom Hanks
There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation… — Emmylou Harris
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some… — Friedrich August von Hayek
As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right. — Hunter Hayes
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. — Seamus Heaney
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most… — Marilu Henner
I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit,… — Tom Hiddleston
We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else. — Lauryn Hill
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
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. — Elbert Hubbard
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. — Elbert Hubbard
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. — Mike Huckabee
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
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost… — Steve Jobs

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