"I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me."

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."

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

"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."

"I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations."

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."

"The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."

"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."

"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."

"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?"

"We tend to live up to our expectations."

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself."

"I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat."

"No expectation fails there,No pleasing habit ends,No man grows old, no girl grows cold,But friends walk by friends."

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!

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.

The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.

“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.”

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

“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.”

There are no exceptions to the rule that everyone thinks they're an exception to the rules

“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.”