Quotes about Expectation

Expectation is the mother of all frustration. Votes: 4

Expectation is the springboard of achievement. Votes: 3

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety. Votes: 3

Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Votes: 3

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it. Votes: 3

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously. Votes: 3

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures. Votes: 3

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment. Votes: 3

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children. Votes: 3

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-. Votes: 3

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment. Votes: 3

Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate. Votes: 3

You can Light Up the Whole World by Giving without any Expectation Back. Votes: 3

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity. Votes: 3

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was. Votes: 3

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. Votes: 3

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself. Votes: 3

Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming. Votes: 3

Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it! Votes: 3

Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed. Votes: 3

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety. Votes: 3

A desert is a place without expectation. Votes: 2

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. Votes: 2

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. Votes: 2

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Votes: 2

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Votes: 2

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation. Votes: 2

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed. Votes: 2

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation. Votes: 2

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. Votes: 2

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. Votes: 2

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. Votes: 2

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. Votes: 2

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. Votes: 2

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. Votes: 2

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. Votes: 2

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. Votes: 2

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. Votes: 2

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. Votes: 2

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. Votes: 2

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. Votes: 2

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam. Votes: 2

As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism. Votes: 2

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. Votes: 2

Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation. Votes: 2

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has. Votes: 2

Act without expectation. Votes: 1

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends. Votes: 0

Hope is a gracious expectation. Votes: 0

Any expectation is what pain is. Votes: 0

expectation isn't the same as desire Votes: 0

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another. Votes: 0

Patience is the absence of expectation. Votes: 0

Embrace each day with divine expectation. Votes: 0

Have an attitude of positive expectation. Votes: 0

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear... Votes: 0

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility. Votes: 0

My expectation is that technology always changes. Votes: 0

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. Votes: 0

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. Votes: 0

Pray with expectation to get an answer. Votes: 0

Work ethic must exceed the expectation level. Votes: 0

Hope is an expectation of everyday miracle. Votes: 0

The threshold is the place of expectation. Votes: 0

Life is largely a matter of expectation. Votes: 0

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead. Votes: 0

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero. Votes: 0

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one. Votes: 0

Opportunity meets you at your level of expectation. Votes: 0

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure. Votes: 0

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person. Votes: 0

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful. Votes: 0

Good people always rise to your level of expectation. Votes: 0

For every sacrifice, there is an expectation of reward. Votes: 0

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. Votes: 0

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself Votes: 0

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness. Votes: 0

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. Votes: 0

Being kind without expectation is the truest kind of kindness. Votes: 0

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) Votes: 0

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality. Votes: 0

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden. Votes: 0

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation. Votes: 0

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. Votes: 0

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. Votes: 0

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. Votes: 0

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay. Votes: 0

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior. Votes: 0

What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity. Votes: 0

We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance. Votes: 0

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation. Votes: 0

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation! Votes: 0

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. Votes: 0

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way. Votes: 0

An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence. Votes: 0

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation? Votes: 0

Give to another human being without the expectation of a return. Votes: 0

Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best. Votes: 0

Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him. Votes: 0

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities. Votes: 0

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. Votes: 0

Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others. Votes: 0

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation. Votes: 0

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself. Votes: 0

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward... Votes: 0

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. Votes: 0

Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk. Votes: 0

Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice. Votes: 0

For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration. Votes: 0

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation. Votes: 0

Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Votes: 0

The lower your expectation the easier and happier your life will be Votes: 0

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk. Votes: 0

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime? Votes: 0

Abundance comes from within it comes from thought , intention, attention and expectation Votes: 0

Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation. Votes: 0

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized. Votes: 0

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. Votes: 0

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. Votes: 0

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is. Votes: 0

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No. Votes: 0

Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation. Votes: 0

Limit your thinking and expectation today to only the things God can do. Votes: 0

The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do. Votes: 0

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me. Votes: 0

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Votes: 0

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return. Votes: 0

I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages. Votes: 0

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it. Votes: 0

But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. Votes: 0

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. Votes: 0

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation. Votes: 0

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be Votes: 0

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation. Votes: 0

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. Votes: 0

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round. Votes: 0

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat, Votes: 0

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere. Votes: 0

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Votes: 0

You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward. Votes: 0

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. Votes: 0

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia Votes: 0

My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect. Votes: 0

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure. Votes: 0

Please reduce the expectation in your tone when asking me how my day is going. Votes: 0

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off. Votes: 0

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. Votes: 0

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy. Votes: 0

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business. Votes: 0

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph. Votes: 0

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation. Votes: 0

Love holds no expectation on what you will be, it simply values who you are. Votes: 0

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness. Votes: 0

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. Votes: 0

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such. Votes: 0

Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations. Votes: 0

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. Votes: 0

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time. Votes: 0

The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up. Votes: 0

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. Votes: 0

It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world. Votes: 0

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation Votes: 0

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones. Votes: 0

Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return. Votes: 0

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. Votes: 0

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation. Votes: 0

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater. Votes: 0

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. Votes: 0

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created. Votes: 0

The expectation on the iPod is that HP's version will probably outsell Apple's version relatively quickly. Votes: 0

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good Votes: 0

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. Votes: 0

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God. Votes: 0

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty. Votes: 0

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short. Votes: 0

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar. Votes: 0

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love. Votes: 0

To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness. Votes: 0

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day. Votes: 0

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea. Votes: 0

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old. Votes: 0

I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation. Votes: 0

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent. Votes: 0

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. Votes: 0

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people. Votes: 0

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven. Votes: 0

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people. Votes: 0

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. Votes: 0

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection? Votes: 0

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return. Votes: 0

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view. Votes: 0

Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life. Votes: 0

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn. Votes: 0

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth. Votes: 0

The expectation is that party leaders solve problems. That's why substantial differences must first be cleared up. Votes: 0

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic. Votes: 0

Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation. Votes: 0

The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. Votes: 0

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film. Votes: 0

With success comes expectation and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high. Votes: 0

The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope. Votes: 0

All of Christian existence ... stands within an expectation. Its fulfillment may be sure, but its timing is unknown. Votes: 0

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. Votes: 0

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. Votes: 0

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Votes: 0

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. Votes: 0

Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration. Votes: 0

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome. Votes: 0

What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions? Votes: 0

When expectation becomes your believe the the depth of being heart is pretty more than just a disappointment.. :( Votes: 0

If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt. Votes: 0

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense. Votes: 0

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. Votes: 0

Be not anxious;yesterday is your experience, today is your experiment and tomorrow is your expectation. Maximize the time! Votes: 0

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. Votes: 0

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them? Votes: 0

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. Votes: 0

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated. Votes: 0

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. Votes: 0

Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes. Votes: 0

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. Votes: 0

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. Votes: 0

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. Votes: 0

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity. Votes: 0

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God. Votes: 0

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are. Votes: 0

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner... Votes: 0

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly. Votes: 0

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance. Votes: 0

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom. Votes: 0

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence? Votes: 0

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. Votes: 0

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body. Votes: 0

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. Votes: 0

Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given? Votes: 0

Disappointment resides in expectation. Showing a little regard creates consideration, which results in understanding. Steps to a peace of mind. Votes: 0

Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation. Votes: 0

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. Votes: 0

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time. Votes: 0

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be Votes: 0

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair. Votes: 0

I made plans out of hope, expectation, desire, and duct tape, and I broke those plans with my bare hands. Votes: 0

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show. Votes: 0

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources. Votes: 0

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. Votes: 0

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. Votes: 0

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. Votes: 0

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. Votes: 0

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. Votes: 0

With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before. Votes: 0

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure. Votes: 0

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders. Votes: 0

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach. Votes: 0

I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself. Votes: 0

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism. Votes: 0

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver. Votes: 0

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. Votes: 0

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do. Votes: 0

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. Votes: 0

Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being. Votes: 0

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. Votes: 0

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation. Votes: 0

Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment. Votes: 0

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession. Votes: 0

A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things. Votes: 0

All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation. Votes: 0

The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others. Votes: 0

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. Votes: 0

I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you. Votes: 0

There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that. Votes: 0

The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise. Votes: 0

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation. Votes: 0

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me. Votes: 0

By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other. Votes: 0

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. Votes: 0

And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation. Votes: 0

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations. Votes: 0

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. Votes: 0

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime? Votes: 0

The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism. Votes: 0

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. Votes: 0

When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself. Votes: 0

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition. Votes: 0

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. Votes: 0

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder. Votes: 0

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. Votes: 0

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated. Votes: 0

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe. Votes: 0

I don't see coach job stressful, I really don't. Of course, there is pressure and expectation, but I wouldn't necessarily equate that with stress. Votes: 0

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you. Votes: 0

I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me. Votes: 0

One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward Votes: 0

What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed. Votes: 0

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. Votes: 0

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start. Votes: 0

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses. Votes: 0

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. Votes: 0

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime. Votes: 0

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime. Votes: 0

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. Votes: 0

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in. Votes: 0

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts. Votes: 0

There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being. Votes: 0

That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church Votes: 0

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself. Votes: 0

There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food "” the most fundamental expectation of every human being. Votes: 0

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite. Votes: 0

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. Votes: 0

Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you. Votes: 0

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same. Votes: 0

In public administration good sense would seem to require the public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize the eventual disappointment. Votes: 0

Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation. Votes: 0

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose Votes: 0

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work ot make it better. Votes: 0

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here. Votes: 0

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself. Votes: 0

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won. Votes: 0

Our expectation is that by 2050, which is a long time away, India will be the largest economy in the world, overtaking both the U.S. and China. Votes: 0

Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment. Votes: 0

When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy. Votes: 0

An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful. Votes: 0

When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined. Votes: 0

Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman. Votes: 0

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible. Votes: 0

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has. Votes: 0

There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important. Votes: 0

The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation. Votes: 0

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are. Votes: 0

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day. Votes: 0

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem. Votes: 0

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based. Votes: 0

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read. Votes: 0

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. Votes: 0

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing. Votes: 0

Being open to the concept that globalisation is only 10-20% complete leaves room for some expectation that there might be more gains to be achieved from further integration. Votes: 0

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so. Votes: 0

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. Votes: 0

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not. Votes: 0

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me. Votes: 0

I think there's almost an expectation that it should be Theresa [May] and Boris [Johnson]. I think they'd be real surprise if it ended up with someone else. Votes: 0

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. Votes: 0

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth. Votes: 0

I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation. Votes: 0

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it. Votes: 0

My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward. Votes: 0

When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned. Votes: 0

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. Votes: 0

I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves. Votes: 0

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order. Votes: 0

Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will. Votes: 0

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series. Votes: 0

Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it. Votes: 0

Do you need help today? Lift up your hands to the Lord in supplication and in expectation, and soon you will lift up your hands in jubilation and celebration. Votes: 0

A return to the NCAA is the expectation... I think that's a good pressure. I'd rather that pressure to the other way. ... I like a little pressure on me. Votes: 0

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure. Votes: 0

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men. Votes: 0

How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time... Votes: 0

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so. Votes: 0

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent. Votes: 0

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence. Votes: 0

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation. Votes: 0

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place. Votes: 0

I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment. Votes: 0

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Votes: 0

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper. Votes: 0

When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success. Votes: 0

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way. Votes: 0

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards. Votes: 0

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. Votes: 0

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. Votes: 0

Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold. Votes: 0

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Votes: 0

I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live. Votes: 0

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain. Votes: 0

Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful. Votes: 0

The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy. Votes: 0

Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places. Votes: 0

In America, there's this type of expectation of just-add-water celebrity, this type of, "Of course you found me; we're all going to be famous for 15 minutes," sort of Paris-Hilton-ization of society. Votes: 0

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it. Votes: 0

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically. Votes: 0

A Killer Brand exists when an entity derives a disproportionate amount of success in its category because of a compelling and differentiated expectation that comes to be associated with its name. Votes: 0

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life Votes: 0

There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society - that is, the overemphasis on familial bonds. Votes: 0

I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me! Votes: 0

I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign. Votes: 0

We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy. Votes: 0

We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy. Votes: 0

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in. Votes: 0

It gives us more flexibility, so we can do more, but it also creates the expectation of the instant response. It can take away your sense of control over your time. Votes: 0

By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rod ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectation. Votes: 0

I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. Votes: 0

How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all. Votes: 0

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation. Votes: 0

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity. Votes: 0

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community. Votes: 0

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves. Votes: 0

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years. Votes: 0

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery. Votes: 0

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine. Votes: 0

Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation. Votes: 0

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you're good, you'll reset that expectation again Votes: 0

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury. Votes: 0

In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women. Votes: 0

There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity. Votes: 0

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life. Votes: 0

Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest. Votes: 0

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. Votes: 0

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up. Votes: 0

Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much fiath? Could ever there be too much love?And could love require lies? Votes: 0

Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace. Votes: 0

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh. Votes: 0

Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition. Votes: 0

It's always better if you can keep the bar low, and then exceed the expectation. When it's high, that makes the job even tougher. But, I think we're up for the challenge. We're ready. Votes: 0

There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it. Votes: 0

It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love. Votes: 0

I don't really care too much about Valentine's Day... I've never had a valentine or anything. I've always just spent it with my friends, so I don't really have much expectation for Valentine's Day. Votes: 0

If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be. Votes: 0

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful . Votes: 0

Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it. Votes: 0

I think that fear of the mob, the expectation that people, particularly poor and nonwhite people become mobs almost automatically in the absence of coercive authority, is inculcated by the media, the movies, and politicians. Votes: 0

Love assumes expectation and hope. All actors of the hazardous pursuit of love eagerly look forward to passing a significant cape without injuries or aching scratches: "the Cape of good Hope". ( " Those journeys of love" ) Votes: 0

Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. Votes: 0

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected. Votes: 0

The practice of giving an A transports your relationships from the world of measurement into the universe of possibility... This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into. Votes: 0

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal. Votes: 0

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work. Votes: 0

I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy. Votes: 0

The front windows as are the watchmen of grief - I've been looking beyond expectation - Beyond myself - and I do not know as I love you - Which one of us is missing. Votes: 0

If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves. Votes: 0

I came up and was a first-round draft pick and there was a lot of hype and a lot of expectation, and I enjoyed that. Have I also seen the other side of that? Absolutely. Votes: 0

You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation. Votes: -1