Expectation Quotes

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

~ Margaret Mitchell

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

~ Brian Tracy

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.

~ Paulo Coelho

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

~ Fulton J. Sheen

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

~ Jodi Picoult

When using the Law of Attraction to manifest one’s more desired reality, it is not simply enough to shift one’s conscious thoughts – for it is actually our beliefs that ‘attract’ the reality. Our thoughts are of our Conscious Mind, while our beliefs rest within our Subconscious Mind. The Conscious Mind acts as the objective observer and receiver of information, while the Subconscious Mind acts as storage and the subjective projector of reality. Projector meaning that the Subconscious Mind projects out, or creates, the perceived reality we see by 1) attracting the vibrational matching experiences in alignment with our beliefs, and 2) coloring the film (information) received through the Conscious Mind in accordance with our belief systems (perception). How we see reality is strongly hued by the beliefs imbedded within us.Thus: shift a belief – shift reality.For example: We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people.Call to Action: Adopt beliefs that are empowering, heart-connecting, and full of gratitude and peace.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance

~ Francine Rivers

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

~ Jodi Picoult

It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter's nights. Madam, my example comes not from any book of romance. My grandparents walked and breathed; they kissed and quarreled. This I must have, and I will seek it with the point of my knife in a bad husband's heart if I can find it no other way.

~ Roberta Gellis

Marriage is a wonderful invention, but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.

~ Billy Connolly

We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

o not preoccupy yourself with wants or expectations. The world won't abide by the standards, you set in any case, whether you set them too low or too high. It will break them every time for the simple fact that our true essence has no desire, hope or expectation for anything. It has no selfish inclinations of any kind. Everything, it experiences, is a passing phase, not its real identity.

~ Anita B. Sulser Phd

The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done.

~ Germany Kent

We measure time through a mental framework trussed with two major stakes: memory and expectation. Memory is that spottiness that takes place behind the eyes: memory takes place in the cloistered theater that houses diffused still pictures. We file mental pictures that encapsulate our prior life into mental shelves for a wayward librarian to cull through and forward select recollection to the recall center whenever summoned. Expectations arise from thoughtful consideration of our future prospects in life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Hope is expectant longing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have a headache. If only I had a crown to put on!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon

~ Po Bronson

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

~ Criss Jami

Expect good to happen in your day and you'll find that good things start to happen.

~ Avina Celeste

Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you.

~ Vikrmn

I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations.

~ Parul Wadhwa

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.

~ Alan W. Watts

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.

~ Ralph Ellison

Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy,The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.

~ Philip Larkin

I got married. A bright past is ahead of me!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

The world believes ‘asakti’ [infatuation, attraction of atoms] to be love and (then) become confused. Woman has some work from men and men has some work from women. All this has arisen because of work (expectations). If work does not get completed, all within will complain and form an attack. Not for even a second has anyone become one’s own. Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] will become yours. That is why the Lord has said, ‘Every living being is an orphan’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, ‘you can keep on burning!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where our own mind doesn’t listen to us, how can other’s minds follow what we say? One should not have such expectation at all.

~ Dada Bhagwan

I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.

~ Steven Magee

Human being may fail you, but God will never forsake thee.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not expect much from humans. Expect much more from God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not expect anything from any one.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet.

~ Munia Khan

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

~ Sri Chinmoy

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

~ Criss Jami

People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words.

~ Sanhita Baruah

Hope is a gracious expectation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita