Quotes about Expectation
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
- Charles Dickens
History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.
- Vance Havner
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
- Tertullian
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
- John Keats
They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
- Martin Luther
The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.
- Louie Giglio
True faith is ever connected with hope.
- John Calvin
Anger is really disappointed hope.
- Erica Jong
Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
- Emil Brunner
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
- Anne Lamott
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
- Samuel Johnson