Quotes About Expectation

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

Have an attitude of positive expectation.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

When you give something to a man and expect nothing — do not even expect the man to be grateful — his ingratitude will not tell upon you, because you never expected anything, never thought you had any right to anything in the way of a return. You gave him what he deserved; his own Karma got it for him; your Karma made you the carrier thereof.

If we were really unattached, we should escape all this pain of vain expectation, and could cheerfully do good work in the world. Never will unhappiness or misery come through work done without attachment. The world will go on with its happiness and misery through eternity.

Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.

Nothing the night said about the morning turned out to be true.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.

The outcome of belief in magic can certainly surpass all hope...

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

What good? None, possibility. One does not await a revolution as one awaits the grocer's van, expecting to be handed packets of sugar and tapioca.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

Your love will last forever, If you do not expect her to walk the same path, But you look in the same direction.

When you have suffered betrayal by the universe, a betrayal by a man is not only unsurprising but expected.