Quotes About Expectation

Many times expecting personal transformation to happen without humility is like expecting a car to move forward without fuel.

If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.

Remember, waiting isn't just about what you are hoping for at the end of the wait, but also about what you will become as you wait.

You see, God hasn't promised you a good job or great kids. He hasn't promised you an easy marriage and a comfortable place to live. He hasn't promised you physical health and a good church to attend. He hasn't promised that you would experience affluence and be surrounded by things that entertain you. What he has promised is that he will complete the work that he has begun in you.

Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.

Hope for the believer is not a dream of what could be, but a confident expectation of a guaranteed result that shapes his life.

if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never

Live in hope because paradise is surely coming, and stop asking this fallen world to be the paradise it will never be.

hope is nothing less than a confident expectation of a guaranteed result.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. —Bill Hoest

Life is all about what we look to to fill us.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

Optimism research teaches us that we should expect the best and have a contingency plan for the worst.

Perception begins with what is experienced, rather than beginning with what is expected; the model is to "see and understand" rather than "understand and see.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected.

want something hard enough and work for it, and you'll get it, but when you get it it will either prove to be not wholly what you wanted, or something will happen to spoil it.

For things to land in you're lap. You must be sitting down.

No news is ever as good or as bad as it first seems

And you're disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

I began to fear that constant hoping might cause me to sacrifice today for the illusion of a better tomorrow." - The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need

You get exactly what you want, Anatole's always suspected, only when you get it it's no longer what you want, you need something else.

Riven eyed him sidelong. "Cale, I think … that he is waiting, too. Like the shadowwalkers." "For what?" Cale started to say, but could not find his voice at first. "For what?" "For you to let him go." Riven gestured at Jak.

they do have a personality disorder, you can't expect them to act like a healthy, well-adjusted person. That sets them up for failure—and it sets you up for disappointment