30 quotes about expectation

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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

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Benjamin Franklin

PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

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Aesop

WriterGreek-620 · 7th century BC

4.0 · 61 votes

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Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.

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Anonymous

3.9 · 30 votes · 164 reads

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Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent.

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Anonymous

4.5 · 32 votes

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Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?

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Seneca

PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

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Bill Gates

BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

3.0 · 56 votes

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Good is not good, when better is expected.

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Thomas de Quincey

AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

3.8 · 59 votes · 188 reads

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

3.7 · 20 votes · 138 reads

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I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappoin

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Samuel Johnson

AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

3.9 · 44 votes · 129 reads

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If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus
PhilosopherGreek-535 · 6th century BC
4.5 · 21 votes · 72 reads
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Mailer
WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century
3.5 · 61 votes · 88 reads
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
Raymond Chandler
WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century
3.3 · 17 votes · 64 reads
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It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. H. Auden
PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century
4.7 · 12 votes · 9 reads
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace
PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC
3.8 · 21 votes · 118 reads
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.7 · 58 votes · 135 reads
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot
WriterBritish1819 · 19th century
3.0 · 19 votes · 179 reads
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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy
PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century
4.0 · 16 votes · 169 reads
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Prospect is often better than possession.
Thomas de Quincey
AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century
4.8 · 33 votes · 59 reads
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Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.
Anonymous
4.7 · 43 votes · 98 reads
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
William Faulkner
WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century
4.6 · 51 votes · 104 reads
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The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Elvis Presley
MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century
4.2 · 20 votes · 189 reads
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
4.5 · 63 votes · 11 reads
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
WriterFrench1715 · 18th century
3.6 · 43 votes · 153 reads
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We tend to get what we expect.
Norman Mailer
WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century
3.1 · 34 votes · 0 reads
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What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century
3.2 · 8 votes · 161 reads
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When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
Stephen Hawking
PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century
3.8 · 53 votes · 156 reads
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. Morgan
BusinessmanAmerican1837 · 19th century
3.0 · 27 votes · 140 reads
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Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Anonymous
4.0 · 51 votes · 61 reads
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.3 · 14 votes · 192 reads
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