Quotes About Expectation

You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you...

Ask very little but ask of everyone.

I thought he wanted it, anyway, " I say. "Not like this, " Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

My months are spent preparing for the fall.

I never expected you to understand, but I did expect you to be there.

He said he was going to fix everything and I believed him. But I believed him before and again some. And I guess I got lost in the resentment of disbelief.

You can't wake up miserable and expect something outside yourself to change that mood, you have to be willing to change that mood so you expect the best from your outside world.

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

You have to be ready for luck.

You may have a barrelful of luck tomorrow. If so- fine. But don't expect it, and most of all, don't sit around waiting for it.

We've Tweeted him, we've stalked him [on] Facebook. We thought because he was so into volleyball he would have got back to us. But no luck so far.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Be prepared for luck.

Psychologists have correctly said that when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form, and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity. Mr.

There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.

weakness of mankind in wanting something for nothing.

when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

Financial independence, riches, desirable business and professional positions are not within reach of the person who neglects or refuses to expect, plan, and demand these things. The person who desires riches in the same spirit that Samuel Adams desired freedom for the colonies is sure to accumulate wealth.