Quote: Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. Author: Greg Anderson American Author of ''The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness''
Quote: In order to win, you must expect to win. Author: Richard Bach 1936-, American Author
Quote: You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him. Author: Best of Bits and Pieces
Quote: Expect victory and you make victory. Author: Preston Bradley
Quote: One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation. Author: Tony Bright
Quote: Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level... Author: Eileen Caddy American Spiritual Writer
Quote: For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much -- if he lives and uses that in hand day by day -- shall be full to running over. Author: Edgar Cayce 1877-1945, American Psychic Medium
Quote: Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. Author: Ralph Charell American Author
Quote: Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck. Author: Claud Cockburn 1904-1981, British Author, Journalist
Quote: Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. Author: Richard M. DeVos 1926-, American Businessman, Co-founder of Amway Corp.
Quote: What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: How much of human life is lost in waiting. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it. Author: Malcolm S. Forbes 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman
Quote: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Good is not good, when better is expected. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: Prospect is often better than possession. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is. Author: Wayne Gretzky 1961-, Canadian Hockey Player
Quote: The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. Author: Heraclitus BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1841-1935, American Judge
Quote: You begin by always expecting good things to happen Author: Tom Hopkins American Sales Trainer, Speaker, Author
Quote: Life is largely a matter of expectation. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: 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. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. Author: Michael Jordan 1963-, American Basketball Player, Actor
Quote: Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: We expect everything and are prepared for nothing. Author: Anne Sophie Swetchine 1782-1857, Russian Author
Quote: People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold. Author: Richard Thalheimer American Business Executive, The Sharper Image
Quote: We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Quote: Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Quote: I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up. Author: Lee Trevino 1939-, American Golfer
Quote: Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather. Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist
Quote: Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Author: Alice Walker 1944-, American Author, Critic
Quote: High expectations are the key to everything. Author: Sam Walton 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores
Quote: Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed. Author: Peter Wastholm
Quote: You can't base your life on other people's expectations. Author: Stevie Wonder 1950-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Producer
Quote: You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back. Author: Andrew Young 1932-, Civil Rights Activist, Protestant Minister, Public Official
Quote: If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker
Quote: You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker
Quote: I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. Author: Bruce Lee 1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist
Quote: We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: 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. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself. Author: Shannon Miller American Olympic Gymnast
Quote: When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen. Author: John Pierpont Morgan 1837-1913, American Banker, Financier, Art Collector
Quote: If something can go wrong it will. Author: (Edward A. Murphy Murphy's Law
Quote: A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. Author: Patricia Neal
Quote: By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible. Author: Giovanni Niccolini
Quote: We tend to live up to our expectations. Author: Earl Nightingale 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker
Quote: If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: We tend to get what we expect. Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. Author: Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer
Quote: A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: Don't cross the bridge till you come to it. Author: Proverb
Quote: Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Quote: I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA
Quote: Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress? Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them. Author: Mary Decker Slaney American Track Athlete
Quote: Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view. Author: Grace Speare
Quote: The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little. Author: Ben Sweetland