Abraham Lincoln:

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

Alexander Pope:

'Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth beatitude.

Alice Walker:

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Anna Quindlen:

It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

Brian Tracy:

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Candace Bergen:

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

Cervantes:

Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Charlotte Bronte:

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Dame Edith Evans:

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

David Ogilvy:

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

Dennis Wholey:

Expecting the world to treat you fairly
because you are a good person
is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you
because you are a vegetarian.

Edward de Bono:

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Ellen Galinsky:

Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.

Goethe:

Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be."

Henry David Thoreau:

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Henry David Thoreau:

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau:

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

Henry Ford:

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash

Joan Didion:

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves -- there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

John Lubbock:

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Leo Buscaglia:

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Mark Twain:

Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

message to Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 16, 1901

Mark Twain:

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

Mark Twain:

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Mary Decker Stanley:

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

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Mary Kay Ash:

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.

Michael Jordan:

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Patricia Neal:

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.

Patricia Neal:

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Samuel Johnson:

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Thomas Alva Edison:

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

Thomas Jefferson:

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Victor Frankl:

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

Walt Whitman:

Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Yogi Berra:

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.