Expectation Quotes


Expectation quotes focus mainly on setting high standards you will need to strive to achieve. Many talk about the idea that we get what we expect in life. Expect little and you are rarely disappointed. Expect much and you achieve much. I find the quotes about ‘imagining possibilities’ most inspiring. Nelson Henderson invites us to consider, “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” We have the opportunity to leave a legacy for future generations by claiming high ideals and embracing goals that serve the world. Try not to limit yourself to one possibility or outcome. Often, the result you expect does not come about, but it opens the door to a much grander possibility. Dream big. Set your sights high and know you are planting seeds that have the potential to bless many in the future.



In order to win, you must expect to win.
Richard Bach

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Charlotte Bronte

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

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.
Eileen Caddy

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
William Congreve

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.
Ernest Holmes

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
Dean Inge

Frankly, I'm more worried about the violence we do to ourselves and our children by allowing the media to create an expectation of instant gratification.
Hugh Mackay

Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell

Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectation that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them.
Sara Paddison

I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.
Frederick Perls

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

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
Meryl Streep

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Brian Tracy

Our limitations and successes will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley

Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples?
Dottie Walters

High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Wendy Wasserstein

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.
Oprah Winfrey



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