Quotes on Expectations

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

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

The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.

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.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

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

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.