Expectations Quotes

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No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

- Frank Bolles

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

- Theodore Rubin

Flops are a part of life's menu and I'm never a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

- Rosalind Russell

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

- Michael Jordan

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do -- or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

- Stanley Crawford

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

- Byron Katie

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

- Dawna Markova

When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, "Have faith and take your troubles to God." Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

- Martin Buber

People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them.

- Epictetus

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

- Jonathan Swift

You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.

- Lily Tomlin

Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with
A love like that.
It lights the whole sky.

- Hafiz of Persia

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- David Ogilvy

You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you -- your own choices -- what you get from others remains a present, a gift.

- Albert Schweitzer

To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

- Mark Nepo

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

- Thomas Alva Edison

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

- Charlotte Bronte

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."

- Victor Frankl

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

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

- Yogi Berra

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.

- Anna Quindlen