Quotes about Expectation

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

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."

It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

You'll often hear that people don't like change, but that's not quite right. People have no problem with change they asked for. What people don't like is forced change—change they didn't request on a timeline they didn't choose. Your "new and improved" can easily become their "what the fuck?" when it is dumped on them as a surprise.

It was an observation they had made in her earliest youth—Undine never wanted anything long, but she wanted it "right off." And until she got it the house was uninhabitable.