Quotes about Expectation

One must make allowances for a parental instinct that has been starving for twenty-five or thirty years. It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad. A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and jimpson weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:

He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

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

we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.

For we have, built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression, and these must be altered at the same time as we alter the living conditions which are a result of those structures. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person.

Do not expect human beings to reward you, don't even think about it, just LOVE, because you know at the end of the day it will be God who will give you the reward.

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say "Just what I expected," if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

Stop being disappointed about where you are and start being optimistic about where you are going.

I expect great things to happen today. I trust in God's plan for my life. I accept all of the love, joy, abundance, and success in my life. I accept all the people who want to work with me and benefit from my gifts and love. Every day I am getting stronger, healthier, and better. "Now