Quotes About Expectation

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

Rich people expect to succeed.

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

The customer is not always right.

Hope springs eternal.

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

You always get what you unconsciously believe and expect.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

I am so ready to be a mommy. I can't wait. I notice every little baby dress, every little baby toy, every little baby thing.

Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.

To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.

Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might bestow upon them more benefits than he does.

"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.