Sayings about Expectations
Low is the mountain, high the expectations. ~ Malawian Proverbs
He who inherits a penny is expected to spend a dollar. ~ German Proverbs
When we least expect it, the hare darts out of the ditch. ~ Dutch Proverbs
When you have an ass for a friend, expect nothing but kicks. ~ Indian Proverbs
Don’t expect from others what you can’t promise them yourself. ~ Chinese Proverbs
He who has done evil, expects evil. ~ Guinean Proverb
Don’t expect. Inspect. ~ American Proverbs
From lean meat do not expect fat broth. ~ Turkish Proverbs
If a poor man gives to you, he expects more in return. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect. ~ English Proverb
You can’t expect both ends of a sugar cane to be as sweet. ~ Chinese Proverb
A gift long expected is sold, not given. ~ Italian Proverbs
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. ~ Arabian Proverbs
Don’t expect to be offered a chair when you visit a place where the chief himself sits on the floor. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
You cannot fill your belly by painting pictures of bread. ~ Chinese proverb
How can you expect to find ivory in a dog’s mouth?. ~ Chinese Proverb
Expect trust from a dog but not from a woman. ~ Iranian Proverbs
From a broken violin do not expect fine music. ~ Greek Proverbs
You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders. ~ English Proverbs
Small gifts go to places where men expect bigger ones. ~ Russian Proverb
Expectations Quotes
In a little place is hid a great treasure, and in a small hope a boundless expectation.~ J. Bodenham
Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.~ Dr. Robert Anthony
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ~ Charlotte Bronte
You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you. ~ Llisa Kleypas
Consciously or unconsciously, you always get what you expect. ~ Robert Anthony
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. ~ Sylvia Plath
Expectations are blossoms; few only mature in fruit. ~ Emperor Ye-Wang
It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it’s very easy to surprise people. ~ Pamela Anderson
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. ~ Calvin Coolidge
Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. ~ Sebastian Horsley
Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get. ~ Nelson Boswell
Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more. ~ Evan Esar
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met? ~ Bill Watterson
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ~ John Ruskin
Expectation ends only in heaven. ~ Kentijern
High expectations are the key to everything. ~ Sam Walton
People live up to your expectations, not their potential. ~ Stephen Young
He who awaits much can expect little. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected. ~ Norton Juster
In expectation there is happiness. ~ Shi-Ka-Shiu
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. ~ Mark Twain
We part more easily with what we possess, than with the expectation of what we wish for; and the reason of it is, that what we expect is always greater than what we enjoy. ~ G. E. Ayscough
Life is largely a matter of expectation. ~ Horace
Nothing in this world is so fatal to the development of the intellectual powers of the young, as what are commonly called expectations. ~ Arster
Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. ~ Samuel Johnson
All earthy delights are sweeter in expectation than enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than expectation. ~ Owen Felltham
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul’s infinite. ~ Honore de Balzac
A good expectation is better than a bad possession. ~ Ibn-Hafsoon-Omar
The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better. ~ Barbara Pletcher
The wise don’t expect to find life worth living; they make it that way. ~ Author Unknown
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. ~ Ibn Gabirol
We love to expect, and when expectation is disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.~ Samuel johnson
Ican’t imagine going on when there are no more expectations. ~ Dame E. Evans
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. ~ Alice Walker
One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation. ~ Tony Bright
Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. ~ Sarah Breathnach
There would be few enterprises of great labor or hazard undertaken, if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages which we persuade ourselves to expect from them. ~ Samuel Johnson
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and intention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the actual possession of them, as he proposed to himself in the expectation. ~ Bishop Robert South
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. ~ Cicero
We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. ~ Henry Home
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much. ~ Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle
Those who live on expectations are sure to be disappointed.~ Joachim Murat
Expect no more from the world than it is able to afford; it promises more than it bestows. ~ Joseph Guy
If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing — and you will have it all! ~ EernieJ. Zelinski
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed. ~ Peter Wastholm
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~ Alexander Pope
We ought not to speculate on the future as if it were already past, nor build expectations on events which may eventually turn out very differently from what they seemed at first to promise. ~ Polybius
Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye. ~ Howard Hendricks
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~ Nelson Henderson
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. ~ Robert Jordon
You can’t expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday’s tools and expect to be in business tomorrow. ~ Author Unknown
Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don’t expect a person to come up to expectations. ~ Evan Esar
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. ~ Bruce Lee
Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. ~ Lionel Shriver
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ~ Orison Swett Marden
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.~ Douglas Adams
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ~ Jack Kinder
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. ~ William Congreve
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.~ Princess Diana
Some people bear three kinds of trouble — the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. ~ Edward Everett Hale
Those who live in expectation of an inheritance, must expect to receive the evil as well as the good therewith. ~ Lord Norbury
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. ~ Alfred A. Montapert
Expect victory and you make victory. ~ Preston Bradley
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. ~ Voltaire
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. ~ Brian Tracy
Expect poison from standing water. ~ William Blake
We tend to get what we expect. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. ~ Brian Tracy
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing. ~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. ~ Brandon Sanderson
I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed. ~ l. M. Montgomery
Promising is the very air o’ the time; it opens the eyes of expectation. ~ William Shakespeare