Quotes About Expectation

Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming, and what one has in fact become.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

When people say: she's got everything, I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

From self alone expect applause.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Faith is believing before receiving.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won't satisfy.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

It is always dullest before the yawn.