These Expectations quotes will inspire you. In the case of uncertainty, the expectation is an event that is considered the most likely to happen. An expectation, which is a belief that is centered on the future, may or may not be realistic.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable and encouraging expectations quotes, expectations sayings, and expectations proverbs.
Inspirational Expectations Quotes
- “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “We tend to get what we expect.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “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
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“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
- “Expectation is the mother of all frustration.” ~ Antonio Banderas
- “There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.” ~ Jodi Picoult , Realistic expectations quotes
- “All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment, but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.” ~ Francois Fenelon
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“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.” ~ Sylvia Plath
- “My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.” ~ Michael J. Fox
- “Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.” ~ Paulo Coelho , Expectations quotes in love
- “Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
- “Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.” ~ Earl Nightingale
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“I’ve always got such high expectations for myself. I’m aware of them, but I can’t relax them.” ~ Mary Decker
- “If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.” ~ Ivan Illich
- “Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “Most things don’t work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.” ~ Judi Dench
- “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” ~ Michael Jordan
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“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.” ~ Max Lucado
- “I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.” ~ Alice Walker
- “You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” ~ Paulo Coelho
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“Well done is better than well said.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “It’s when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.” ~ Mike Huckabee
- “I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Don’t believe in miracles – depend on them.” ~ Laurence J. Peter
- “The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.” ~ Michael J. Fox
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“Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one’s true being.” ~ Laozi
- “The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.” ~ Confucius
- “You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.” ~ Stevie Wonder
- “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.” ~ Patricia Neal
- “Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” ~ Brian Tracy, Positive expectations quotes
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“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.” ~ Edward de Bono
- “Life is largely a matter of expectation.” ~ Horace
- “We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace.” ~ John Robbins
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“Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.” ~ Richard DeVos
- “But elimination will only happen if all countries – nuclear and non-nuclear states – genuinely work towards this result. Nuclear states must abolish their arsenals, as was indicated by the unanimous opinion of the International Court of Justice, the highest international tribunal. The five nuclear states seem to expect others to refrain from obtaining bombs while at the same time maintaining their own caches of deadly weapons.” ~ C. G. Weeramantry
- “I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.” ~ David Guterson
- “There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.” ~ Erich Fromm
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“Buy what’s deliverable, not what could be.” ~ Michael Bloomberg
- “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” ~ Wendy Wasserstein
- “If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.” ~ Madeleine Albright
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“Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.” ~ Alan Dundes
- “Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.” ~ Brad Warner
- “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
- “Our life is full of brokenness – broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God’s faithful presence in our lives.” ~ Henri Nouwen
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“We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.” ~ Lauryn Hill
- “Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
- “Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.” ~ Leo Buscaglia, Relationship expectations quotes
- “If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life – that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment – that would be the perfect state.” ~ Cate Blanchett
- “A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.” ~ Fanny Burney
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“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone’s expectations.” ~ Bill Watterson
- “Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.” ~ Marya Mannes
- “Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.” ~ John F. Akers
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“And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation.” ~ Kathy Acker
- “Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto – a commitment to deliver.” ~ John M. McHugh
- “We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.” ~ Voltaire
- “Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.” ~ Ralph Marston
- “I have great expectations for the future because the past was highly overrated.” ~ Sylvester Stallone
