Expectation Quotes

We tend to get what we expect.

You dream of your first NFL start when you’re a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.

I think we’d be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that’s going to last for ever and ever and ever.

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.