Quotes about Expectation

My mom is really naive - she thinks that because she is honest, other people will be honest too. That's not the way it works.

Thus is youth constituted; it quickly wipes its eye; it believes sorrow useless and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future before an unknown being which is itself. It is natural for it to be happy. IT seems as though it breathed hope.

It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf

If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.

In everyone there's a continuous desire and expectation; deep inside, you still expect something better to happen. That is why you check your email many times a day!

No man lived a more strong and beautiful life than did John Wesley, and his view of death was that whenever it came he would be found at his duty; and the transition from that duty to heaven's service would be a natural one. Instead of death, let the Lord be expected; and the true attitude of life will be that of quiet pursuit of duty and constant readiness to greet Him.

Though he was indeed a humble man, he never sought the glory of humility, but only its reality. He wanted no one but God to witness what he did, just as the only reward he expected was God Himself.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.