Quotes about Expectation
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
- George Washington
A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.
- Mark Twain
Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?
- Mark Twain
If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.
- Henry David Thoreau
We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
- Adrian Rogers
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
- Zig Ziglar
Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.
- Andy Andrews
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flower to bloom?
- Khalil Gibran
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
- Charles Spurgeon