quotations about expectations
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?
BILL WATTERSON
The Days are Just Packed
'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation.
JAMES THOMSON
The Seasons
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Consciously or unconsciously, you always get what you expect.
ROBERT ANTHONY
Think Big
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Letter, Jun. 8, 1762
Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY
Dandy in the Underworld
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Love for Love
We part more easily with what we possess, than with the expectation of what we wish for; and the reason of it is, that what we expect is always greater than what we enjoy.
G. E. AYSCOUGH
The World
Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.
STEVEN REDHEAD
The Solution
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
NORTON JUSTER
The Phantom Tollbooth
High expectations are the key to everything.
SAM WALTON
attributed, The Pocket Book of Quips & Quotes
Keep your expectations high on achievement and low on people.
ANONYMOUS
I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
DAME EDITH EVANS
attributed, Women's Words
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain's Notebook
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE
letter to Warburton, Mar. 24, 1743
If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Bell Jar
Expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Troilus and Cressida
From lean meat do not expect fat broth.
TURKISH PROVERB
Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
SARAH BREATHNACH
Simple Abundance