Quotes About Expectation

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

I hope it won't take long.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.

I hope Donald Trump doesn't become president of the United States and I expect the people of the United States will have the good sense not to elect him.

Hope does not always require probability.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Patience is the art of hoping.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.