Expectation Quotes

"We tend to get what we expect."

"It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution"

"If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal."

"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."

"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so."

"We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting."

"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 disappointed."

"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes"

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."

"No expectation fails there,No pleasing habit ends,No man grows old, no girl grows cold,But friends walk by friends."

"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing."

"Good is not good, when better is expected."

"Prospect is often better than possession."

"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think."

"I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path."

"Women should not be expected to write, or fight, or build, or compose scores; she does all by inspiring men to do all"

"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."

"How much of human life is lost in waiting."