Quotes About Expectation

T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results means you're either insane or are making a New Year's resolution.

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Whatever you promise the public in your advertising, or whatever you lead the public to expect, even though not explicitly stated, is what the public gets sore about if it isn't delivered, and the explosion of a grouch is heard much farther than the gentle hum of satisfaction. It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.

To survive each passing day was my goal in life. At villages where we managed to find some happiness by being treated to food and fresh water, I knew it was temporary and that we were only passing through. So I couldn't bring myself to be completely happy. It was much easier to be sad than to go back and forth between emotions, and this gave me the determination I needed to keep moving. I was never disappointed, since I always expected the worst to happen.

Kur shihte se të tjerët nuk mahniteshin aq fort sa ç'e kishte pritur, ai i rikthehej fillimit. Në qytet bëhej nami, kurse ata ishin si në humbellë. Ishim në një kohë që s'është më, më kupton? Koha ecën, orët, dita, të gjitha ecin, kurse ti mbetesh në diçka që s'di si ta quash. Kohë pa kohë. Nën zero...

Hamej, merrini këto valixhe. Të rënda? Janë mbushur me pritje...

Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.

Svak želi više, traži bolje ili strepi od goreg.

Tako obicno biva. Oni koje zelimo da vidimo ne dolaze u casovima kad na njih mislimo i kad ih najvise ocekujemo, a pojavljuju se u nekom trenutku kad smo mislima najdalje od njih.

Neizvesnost je imanje onih koji nemaju nista i velika nada onih koji nisu navikli na dobro u zivotu. Neizvesnost je za razumne i ponosne ljude ono sto je gatara za budale, slabice i sebicnjake: nagovestava dobro i zlo, pogadja retko, ali zato dopusta sve, i najoprecenije, mogucnosti.

Sobald eine Regierung es für notwendig befindet, ihren Bürgern durch Plakate Frieden und Wohlstand zu versprechen, muss man auf der Hut sein und das Gegenteil davon erwarten.

Unworthiness always puts you in debt to anyone and everyone who shows you the slightest degree of attention or love or energy. Eventually, in this form of bankrupt relationship, your benefactors will demand or expect more than you are able or willing to give. This is the precise moment they will choose to call in the loan.

Some of us will plant the seed and never see the plant.

THE REASON YOU KEEP ATTRACTING THE ONES WHO LEAVE IS BECAUSE YOU EXPECT THEM TO DO SO.

But then again, if I can only attract what I expect, what was I to do with all of the hurt, sadness, sorrow, anger, and fear that had built up as a result of what I had seen

possibilities You have in store for me.Today