Quotes about Expectation
If, any sunny forenoon, she had spread a little pair of wings and flown away before my eyes, I don't think I should have regarded it as much more than I had had reason to expect.
- Charles Dickens
Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact. p.
- Charles Dickens
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest.
- Germany Kent
Don't think too small about what God could do in your lifeābe prepared for God to do a big thing.
- Stormie Omartian
That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
- Thomas Jefferson
When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.
- Thomas Monson
As, when king Uzziah would offer incense without a priest, God was angry with him, and struck him with leprosy (2 Chron 26:20). Just so, when we do not come to God in and through Christ, we offer up incense to him without a priest, and what can we expect but severe rebukes?
- Thomas Watson
When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every day flush lack thoughts out of your mind and refill with dynamic thoughts of abundance. Expect generous benefits in never failing supply.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine ... Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
- Norman Vincent Peale
According to your faith be it unto you" (Matthew 9:29).
- Norman Vincent Peale