70 Beautiful Expectations Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing expectation saying
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Short Expectations Sayings
“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.” —Denis Waitley
“Peace begins When expectation ends.” —Sri Chinmoy
“A desert is a place without expectation.” —Nadine Gordimer
“High expectations are the key to everything.” —Sam Walton
“Less expectation, less hurt.” —Unknown
“If it’s the expectation, why punish them?” —Wilcox
“Life is largely a matter of expectation.” —Horace
“There’s a victory in letting go of your expectations.” —Mike White
“We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.” —Brian Tracy
“If you can’t change your fate, change your expectations from fate.” —Unknown
“We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.” —Brian Tracy
“Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.” —Alice Walker
“Expectation is the mother of all frustration.” —Antonio Banderas
“Giving back was an expectation, not an option.” —Casey Wasserman
“All unhappiness is due to wrong expectations.” —Unknown
“The greatest cause of anxiety is endless expectations.” —Radhanath Swami
“If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.” —Malcolm Forbes
“Things won’t always go our way. Stop expecting them to.” —Unknown
“You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.” —Stevie Wonder
“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.” —Voltaire
“You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.” —Stevie Wonder
“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.” —Bill Watterson
“Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.” —Unknown
“We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.” —Elbert Hubbard
“I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.” —William Howard Stein
“Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.” —Ryunosuke Satoro
“You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.” —Mark Graban
“If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.” —Terrell Owens
“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.” — Tracy
“We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.” —Sophie Swetchine
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.” —Leo Buscaglia
Expectations Sayings
“A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.” —Douglas Adams
“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.” —Robert Jordan
“For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.” —Alanis Morissette
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.” —Stephen Hawking
“Don’t blame people for disappointing you, blame yourself for expecting too much from them.” —Unknown
“We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.” —Samuel Johnson
“The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.” —Charles Dudley Warner
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” —Donald Miller
“When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.” —Ryan Reynolds
“Rejection doesn’t hurt, expectation does. Lying doesn’t kill, denial does. Forgetting doesn’t heal, forgiveness does.” —Unknown
“If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.” —Norman Vincent Peale
“Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.” —Richard DeVos
“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.” —Brandon Sanderson
“Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.” —Confucius
“If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.” —John O’Donohue
“Expectations may sometimes lead you to disappointments, but the anger of getting disappointment may sometimes lead you to what you expected.” —Unknown
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” —George Bernard Shaw
“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.” —Stephen R. Covey
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” —Bruce Lee
“Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.” —Ralph Marston
“People have to step up and help each other. There’s a tradition here and acertain level of expectation.” —Michael Groves
“Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.” —Elbert Hubbard
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” —Michael Jordan
“The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.” —Sam Abell
“A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.” —Dejan Stojanovic
“I hope you do not let anyone else’s expectations direct the course of your life.” —Julianne Donaldson
“The more we expect, the more we suffer when we don’t receive what we expect. And the more we get, the more we expect, and when we don’t get, the more we suffer.” —Radhanath Swami
“When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.” —Stephen Hawking
Top Ten Expectations Sayings
Here you will find top ten expectation sayings selected by our team.
- “Expectation is the mother of all frustration.” —Antonio Banderas
- “For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.” —Alanis Morissette
- “If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” —George Bernard Shaw
- “Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.” —Paulo Coelho
- “Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.” —Ralph Marston
- “Don’t blame people for disappointing you, blame yourself for expecting too much from them.” —Unknown
- “If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.” —Norman Vincent Peale
- “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” —Donald Miller
- “When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.” —Ryan Reynolds
- “Expectations may sometimes lead you to disappointments, but the anger of getting disappointment may sometimes lead you to what you expected.” —Unknown
