Quotes About Expectation

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.

What children expect from grownups is not to be 'understood', but only to be loved, even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations - only trust.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.

Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

When you're all dressed up and no place to go.

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.

A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

The advantages of a losing team: (i) There is everything to hope for and nothing to fear, (2.) Defeats do not disturb one's sleep. (3) An occasional victory is a surprise and a delight. (4) There is no danger of any club passing you. (5) You are not asked fifty times a day, "What was the score?"; people take it for granted that you lost.

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Any man will usually get from other men what he is expecting from them. If he is looking for friendship, he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

Why always, "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say, "not yet"?

Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do, and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

The world is more exacting than God himself.