Quotes About Expectation

Don't allow your circumstances or feelings to dull your enthusiasm for life and imprison you in a negative frame of mind. Starting today, expect things to change in your favor. Expect to experience the goodness of God!

How you begin each day is one of the most important things in life. Your mood, your purpose, even your success in life is dependent on it. When you get up hopeful, expecting good things, and letting go of things in the past – that's when you're in a flow with God.

God created you to be anchored to hope, to go out each day expecting His goodness, believing that the days ahead are better than the days behind.

Stay open for how God is going to do it. Don't put Him in a box and limit Him. Trust Him to do it His way. If we're set in how we want it to happen, we can miss the new thing.

If you could see what God has planned for you, the people you're going to meet, the giants you're going to defeat, the blessings that are going to catapult you forward, then you would go out each day excited about your future, expecting God to show out in your life.

Let me ask you, what are you expecting? Big things, little things, or nothing at all? It's easy to anticipate the worst. But if you'll switch over into faith and expect the best--to excel, to accomplish your dreams--then you'll draw in blessings and favor.

You have to walk by faith and not by sight. Keep expecting it. Keep talking like it's going to happen, acting like it's going to happen, thinking like it's going to happen. Your faith is going to take you where you couldn't go on your own.

Quit looking at what's wrong and start thanking God for what's right. Get up each day expecting good things. Start expecting God's favor. Start expecting His blessings. Be excited about today.

Gospel optimism leads to kingdom prayer. This psalm should move us to pray—and to pray with great hope and expectation—that the kingdom of Christ will prevail against the powers of evil and that all His elect will be brought in and made holy.

Holy expectation cannot coexist with worldliness, unbelief, indifference, and ignorance. It abhors backsliding and seeks the honor of God, the conversion of sinners, and the welfare of the church.

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.