quotations about expectations
Those who live on expectations are sure to be disappointed.
JOACHIM MURAT
attributed, Day's Collacon
Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
L. M. MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing -- and you will have it all!
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
The Lazy Person's Guide to Happiness
You cannot fill your belly by painting pictures of bread.
CHINESE PROVERB
Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Timon of Athens
Oft expectation fails and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All's Well That Ends Well
Expect no more from the world than it is able to afford; it promises more than it bestows.
JOSEPH GUY
Guy's British Spelling Book
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
BRANDON SANDERSON
The Way of Kings
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
ROBERT JORDON
New Spring
If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come--the readiness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Those who live in expectation of an inheritance, must expect to receive the evil as well as the good therewith.
LORD NORBURY
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
PAMELA ANDERSON
attributed, Women Know Everything!
Expectations are blossoms; few only mature in fruit.
EMPEROR YE-WANG
attributed, Day's Collacon
You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.
MARK GRABAN
Lean Hospitals
Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Nothing in this world is so fatal to the development of the intellectual powers of the young, as what are commonly called expectations.
ARSTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
LIONEL SHRIVER
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Expectations are like organic sesame rice cakes--good in theory but seldom nourishing.
JASON PARHAM
"Depth of Field", Wired, May 23, 2019
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Can we remember when, in those more tender years--before our sense of wonder was either crushed, or brushed away by a world rushing by--how alive we were with a bare longing to know life by itself? How life's mysteries held no fear for us, but rather filled us with expectations ... so much so that some nights it was hard to fall asleep; or we'd spend the night actively dreaming of all the possibilities life seemed to offer? Can we look back on ourselves when we were like this and recall when our hearts and minds were still wide open; how intrigued we were by the world unfolding around us, even as we were awakening to an exploding universe of feelings welling up within us?
GUY FINLEY
Let Go and Live in the Now