Quotes about Expectation
When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Every day flush lack thoughts out of your mind and refill with dynamic thoughts of abundance. Expect generous benefits in never failing supply.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine ... Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
— Norman Vincent Peale
According to your faith be it unto you" (Matthew 9:29).
— Norman Vincent Peale
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)
— Oscar Wilde
I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
— Oscar Wilde
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
— Confucius
Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep.
— Cormac McCarthy
You go back home and everthing you wished was different is still the same and everthing you wished was the same is different.
— Cormac McCarthy
She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is puerile.
— DH Lawrence
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
— Dale Carnegie
And it might be well to assume and state openly that other people have the virtue you want them to develop. Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.
— Dale Carnegie