Quotes About Expectation

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

Whatever the future holds I'm not really sure.

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

The future just isn't what it used to be

It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

The golden age has not passed it lies in the future.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It's to set your goal too low and reach it

My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.

It was five, but it could have been six, seven or eight goals, in my opinion.

I thought I would break the scoring record when I got to 40 goals by the age of 27 or 28, but then Fabio Capello took over and he never picked me again.

I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don't have one, then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya it feels phenomenal.

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

It is common to seek perfection, but it is stupid to believe that you will ever reach it.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!