Quotes about Expectation

So the principle is this: Wherever there is more faith, more happens. Whenever there is great faith, great things happen. Where there are more people of faith, more things happen in that congregation than in a congregation where there is less faith. It is that simple. Jesus Himself could do no mighty deeds in Nazareth because of the unbelief of the people there (see Matt. 13: 58).

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.