Quotes about Expectation

You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Karma means always wanting more of what won't get you anywhere in the first place.

I came here searching for something, Dad. I didn't find what I'd expected, but I found what I needed: peace. I needed peace.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

Blessed is he who expects nothing," said Francis of Assisi, "for he shall enjoy everything.

When it comes to awards and things like that - I don't know why - I just always sit in amazement and never really expect it.

The Piglet was sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, sometime or never. He had just discovered that it would be never, and was trying to remember what it was, and hoping it wasn't anything nice, when Pooh came up.

Believing that life interruptions—divine interruptions—are a privilege not only causes us to handle them differently but to await them eagerly.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.