Quotes About Expectation

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.

After the rain cometh the fair weather.

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

Prospect is often better than possession.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.