Expectations Quotes - Page 2

• Life is largely a matter of expectation.

  Horace

  Life, Inspire, Matter

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• Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

  Richard DeVos

  Life, Shapes, Outlook

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• Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

  Laozi

  Family, True Friend, Hate

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Believe, Heartache, Way

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.147, Conari Press

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• Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

  Ville Valo

  Matter, Flow, Bigs

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• If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Happiness, Happy, Inspiration

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  You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

  Stevie Wonder

  Life, Success, Bullying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Karma, Attitude

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• Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Believe, Good Luck, Miracle

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

  Voltaire

  Life

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  I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

  Charles Dickens

  Suffering Pain, Broken, Shapes

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525

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• The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Positive

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• Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

  Henri Nouwen

  Relationship, Broken, Faithful

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• I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Past, Great Expectations, Overrated

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• My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Learning, Keys, Control Myself

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• Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

  Pamela Anderson

  Funny, Sarcastic, People

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• The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

  Confucius

  Life, Business, Philosophical

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• I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

  Cathy Freeman

  Race, Years, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

  Donna Tartt

  Couple, Years, Literature

  "Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of 'The Little Friend'". Random House interview, www.randomhouse.com. October, 2003.

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• You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

  Arthur Golden

  Morning, Nice, Men

  "A talk with Arthur Golden". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. March 23, 1999.

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• I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Believe, Japan, Views

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• It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Want, Expected

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• The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

  Joan Chen

  Differences, Actors, Born

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Justice, Done, I Can

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