Expectations Quotes

  • Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed. ~ Peter Wastholm
  • Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.~ Princess Diana
  • Don’t expect from others what you can’t promise them yourself. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. ~ Calvin Coolidge
  • Don’t expect. Inspect. ~ American Proverb
  • Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. ~ Alice Walker
  • Expect poison from standing water. ~ William Blake
  • Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. ~ Alfred A. Montapert
  • Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. ~ Denis Waitley
  • Expect victory and you make victory. ~ Preston Bradley
  • From a broken violin do not expect fine music. ~ Greek Proverb
  • He who awaits much can expect little. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • He, who has done evil, expects evil. ~ Guinean Proverb
  • He who inherits a penny is expected to spend a dollar. ~ German Proverb
  • Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get. ~ Nelson Boswell
  • High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ~ Jack Kinder
  • Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.~ Dr. Robert Anthony
  • Life is largely a matter of expectation. ~ Horace
  • Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ~ Charlotte Bronte
  • Low is the mountain, high the expectations. ~ Malawian Proverb
  • One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation. ~ Tony Bright
  • Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. ~ Ibn Gabirol
  • Some people bear three kinds of trouble — the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. ~ Edward Everett Hale
  • Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye. ~ Howard Hendricks
  • That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
  • The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better. ~ Barbara Pletcher
  • The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~ Nelson Henderson
  • The wise don’t expect to find life worth living; they make it that way. ~ Author Unknown
  • There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ~ Orison Swett Marden
  • Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
  • Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. ~ William Congreve
  • We expect everything and are prepared for nothing. ~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
  • We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. ~ Samuel Johnson
  • We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. ~ Samuel Johnson
  • We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. ~ Voltaire
  • We tend to get what we expect. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
  • We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. ~ Brian Tracy
  • When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ~ John Ruskin
  • When you have an ass for a friend, expect nothing but kicks. ~ Indian Proverb
  • You can’t expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday’s tools and expect to be in business tomorrow. ~ Author Unknown
  • You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders. ~ English Proverb
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