Expectations Quotes - Page 24

• Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

  John C. Bogle

  Life, Motivational, Perseverance

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.112, John Wiley & Sons

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• The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Motivational, Memories

  Alan W Watts (2012). “Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety”, p.22, Random House

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• He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

  Alain de Botton

  Depressing, Mean, Inspire

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• To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Short Love, Inspirational Love

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• Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Disappointment, Ifs

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• Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Success, Disappointment

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• Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Disappointment, Reality, Obvious

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disappointment, Moral, Cures

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.154

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  Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Educational

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

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• Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.

  Richard Branson

  Educational, Inspire, Marketing

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• It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, People, Competition

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.151, Crown Business

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• The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Leadership, Philosophy, Garden

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

  Paul Fleischman

  Home, Garden, Circles

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• It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

  Jade Edmistone

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Sports, Golf

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• Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service; take it into your work, and do all in the name of the Lord Jesus; take it to your heart, and let that heart rise anew on Easter wings to a higher, a gladder, a fuller life; take it to the dear grave-side and say there the two words Jesus lives! and find in them the secret of calm expectation, the hope of eternal reunion.

  John Ellerton

  Friday, Easter, Jesus

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• It's the time to make choices you can be proud of. It's the time to be the best version of yourself and in the process, somewhere along the way hopefully you attract the best version someone else has to offer. The more you challenge yourself, the higher your expectations become for your life and the people you want to have in it.

  Erin Foster

  Beautiful, People, Choices

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• Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

  Shannon Miller

  Fall, Gymnastics, Each Day

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• The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

  Sally Ride

  Bad Ass, Space, Firsts

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• Hope and fear are inseparable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Inseparable, Hopeful

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• The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

  Andrew Weil

  Happiness, Attitude, Choices

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• Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".

  Dalai Lama

  Jealousy, Buddhist, Kindness

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• To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Police, Poverty, Welfare

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

  Lucy Larcom

  Mistake, Learning, Wish

  Lucy Larcom (1889). “A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory”

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• Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familiar, to our established expectations, we can become trapped in feelings of disappointment, confusion, anger, that create our own internal worlds of suffering.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Letting Go, Disappointment, Grief

  Daniel J. Siegel (2010). “Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation”, p.6, Bantam

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