There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience, in the looks of those who surround us. One would wish to find the strength to beautify one's thoughts and to purify one's heart. It is everyone's hope and expectation to live in serenity and to plod along in transparency: the palms of the hands patiently directed towards heaven, at the heart of all this modernity.
I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.
We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship - we don't want this relationship to go out of control.
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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