Expectation Quotes

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

Duty is what one expects from others.

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

I heard a guy tell me he liked cherries. I waited to hear if he was going to say "tomatoes", then I realized he like cherries just. That joke is ridiculous.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.

I start out by believing the worst

You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.

To expect an impossibility is madness.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

I always entertain great hopes.

Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them … Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?" Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

The lover must often say, "I love because I must, because I will it. I love for myself, not for others. I love for the joy it gives me - and incedentally, only - for that joy it gives to others. If they reinforce me it will be good. If they do not, it also will be good, for I will to love."

For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.