Quotes About Expectation

Each day we demand more from society so that we can demand less from ourselves. Don Colacho

We all know the maxim "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." It's because we want the horse to drink that we become frustrated, because it's literally not in our power to accomplish the job we've set out to do for ourselves.

We cannot. . .begin any real inquiry into Truth, with any assumption or belief whatsoever. We must be willing to see things as they are, rather than as we hope, wish, or expect them to be.

El compromiso mínimo que pedimos al prospecto debe eliminar nuestro riesgo, o al menos hacerlo manejable.

I opened the show with this line: I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

Brilliance is encouraged but optional. Competence, however, is mandatory.

Even when he is behaving in a totally destructive manner, there is a tendency on the part of many women to expect the feelings he expressed in the Beginning to reemerge and make everything right.

You assume that he has the same level of emotional integrity that you have.

I don't expect perfection, I expect excellence." I expect 100 percent effort in all you do.

The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for the group to which we belong. Fear is about limits; hope is about growth. Fear pushes away; hope pulls others closer. Fear divides; hope unifies.

Parent in a retirement home is more likely to be visited by his grown children if they are expecting a sizable inheritance. But wait, you say: maybe the offspring of wealthy families are simply more caring toward their elderly parents?

When you stand up to preach, people are bored and expect you to make it worse.

phrase "often a bridesmaid, never a bride" originated with a 1925 Listerine advertisement.)

Every good athlete can find the flow," continues Pastrana, "but it's what you do with it that makes you great. If you consistently use that state to do the impossible, you get confident in your ability to do the impossible. You begin to expect it. That's why we're seeing so much progression in action sports today. It's the natural result of a whole lot of people starting to expect the impossible.

Let no one tell me that childhood is lived in a timeless present. Rather it is a fever of futures, an ardor of perpetual anticipations.

No matter how old you are, you have more years ahead of you than people of your age did in earlier decades and centuries.

As Thomas Macaulay reflected in 1830, "We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason. . . . On what principle is it, that when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?"4

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?