Quotes on Expectation...

Santhosh Poojary (SIEMPRE AHÍ PARA TI) (15607 Points)

04 February 2011  

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

~Charles F. Kettering

 

Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
~ Anonymous

 

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
~ L. M. Montgomery

 

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
~ Anonymous

 

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

 

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.
~ Italian proverb

 

We do not write as we want, but as we can.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

 

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
~This William Shakespeare’s expectation quote is one of my favorites

 

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
~Confucius

 

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.
~ Olive Schreiner

 

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.
~ Marcelene Cox

 

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
~ George Eliot

 

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
~John Kenneth Galbraith

 

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
~ Jean Vanier

 

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
~Henry Louis Mencken

 

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
~Nikos Kazantzakis

 

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
~ Lin Yutang

 

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
~Oscar Wilde

 

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.
~ French proverb

 

Life is largely a matter of expectation.
~Horace

 

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
~ Graham Greene

 

A desert is a place without expectation.
~Nadine Gordimer

 

Don’t believe in miracles – depend on them.
~Laurence J. Peter

 

High expectations are the key to everything.
~Sam Walton