Expectation Quotes

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Antonio Banderas

Live not by expectation, but by inspiration.

Louise Philippe Dulay

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Giovanni Niccolini

At that point where you have decided to upgrade from aspiration to expectation and have begun to visualize an outcome, something incredibly important has happened, you have committed to the process of change.

Lorii Myers

Beauty is everything. Love is innocent. A future with the perfect man is life.

Jorja Fox

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

Remove the temptation to settle for anything short of what you deserve.

Lorii Myers

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry

Samuel Johnson

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.

Ralph Charell

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 up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.

Tiger Woods, An interview with T

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Thomas Fuller

Prospect is often better than possession.

Thomas Fuller

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Jodi Picoult

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Tony Bright

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Arthur Rimbaud

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits

William Shakespeare

Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

Thomas Merton

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

Frederick William Robertson

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot