Quotes About Expectation

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

I know that it's comin I just hope that I'm alive for it

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.

When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

Every child should be taught to expect success

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

The daily lessons have opened my mind to higher possibilities and given me a newfound personal wisdom. Success is now the only option, it's what I now expect for myself.

. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.

I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity.