We tend to get what we expect.
-Norman Vincent Peale
High expectations are the key to everything.
-Sam Walton
High achievement always takes place
in the framework of high expectation.
-Charles F. Kettering
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations
unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
-Ralph Charell
Expect your every need to be met.
Expect the answer to every problem,
expect abundance on every level.
-Eileen Caddy
I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.
-William Shakespeare
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply.
If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them,
they will come to you,
your supply will correspond with your expectation.
-Orison Swett Marden
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance.
Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
Expect the best of yourself,
and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
-Ralph Marston
We tend to live up to our expectations.
-Earl Nightingale
We will always tend to fulfill
our own expectation of ourselves.
-Brian Tracy
You have to expect things of yourself
before you can do them.
-Michael Jordan
Whatever we expect with confidence
becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
-Brian Tracy
There is nothing so well known
as that we should not expect something for nothing -
but we all do and call it Hope.
-Edgar Watson Howe
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised.
You'll get it.
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Blessed is he that expecteth nothing,
for he shall be gloriously surprised.
-Gilbert K. Chesteron
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed,
but he that expects much -
if he lives and uses that in hand day by day -
shall be full to running over.
-Edgar Cayce
We are never prepared for what we expect.
-James H. Michener
A thing long expected
takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
-Samuel Clemens, "Mark Twain"
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
-William Shakespeare
Be not friend to false expectation.
-The Oculatum
We love to expect,
and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified,
we want to be again expecting.
-Samuel Johnson
