Expectation Quotes
These are some of the best 'Expectation' quotations and sayings.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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By expectation every day beguiled; dupe of tomorrow even from a child.
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
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Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.
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In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment by expectation; we anticipate our happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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We usually get what we anticipate.
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