Expectation Quotes
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“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
Quote by -Michael Jordan
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
Quote by -Benjamin Disraeli
“Where once I’d felt the need to live up to his expectations, I now felt as if I had to make up for all his mistakes.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
There are no exceptions to the rule that everyone thinks they're an exception to the rules
Quote by -Banksy
“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”
Quote by -Audrey Hepburn
The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.
Quote by -B. H. Liddell Hart
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
Quote by -Beverly Sills
"No expectation fails there,No pleasing habit ends,No man grows old, no girl grows cold,But friends walk by friends."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?"
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We are not disappointed in Ronnie Brown. As I said before, expectations always create frustration and a lot of anxiety, which doesn't necessarily help a guy's performance."
Quote by -Nick Saban
"It's an expectation: What are the most important things to accomplish at this time? To find out as much as we can about what those combinations are may be more important at this time than the end result so we can build on a better end result in the long term."
Quote by -Nick Saban
"The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
Quote by -Og Mandino
"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
Quote by -Og Mandino
"What we probably needed to do was not put that expectation on that he's going to kick four goals every game,"
Quote by -Mark Thompson
"As we proceed toward the U.S. Senate hearings for her confirmation, I expect she will provide more information about her life's work. I'll need to see this objective evidence prior to making my decision."
Quote by -David Vitter
“I was being measured against the expectation that any feminist had to be unattractive in a conventional sense—and then described in contrast to that stereotype. The subtext was: If you could get a man, why would you need equal pay?”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.”
Quote by -Cate Blanchett
When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
Quote by -Cate Blanchett
"The long road has drained me of all feelings and expectations. I don’t feel a thing or expect anything now."
Quote by -Mahmoud Darwish
Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.
Quote by -Madonna
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Quote by -Madonna
"I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
"I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
Quote by -Denis Waitley
"I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
"I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
“Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
Quote by -Adam Smith