Quotes about Expectation
It is said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
— Gloria Steinem
If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful.
— Gloria Steinem
Having lived his life in the belief that something great could be just around every corner, did he realize for the first time that no more corners could be turned?
— Gloria Steinem
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?
— Lily Tomlin
Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience
— Joshua Harris
Counting your chickens before they hatch is only wise if God has told you how many will survive.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Clear skies do not promise rain.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
— Cicero
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
— Albert Camus
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
— George Eliot
Hope is patience with the lamp lit
— Tertullian