1. A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ~Patricia Neal
2. A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. ~Mark Twain
3. An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ~Samuel Smiles
4. And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. ~Diana Wynne Jones
5. Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. ~Marilu Henner
6. By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible. ~Giovanni Niccolini
7. Don't believe in miracles - depend on them. ~Laurence J. Peter
8. Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
9. Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. ~Bob Beauprez
10. Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything. ~Samuel Hazo
11. Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level. ~Eileen Caddy
12. I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. ~Rosemary Clooney
13. Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. ~Samuel Johnson
14. He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
15. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ~Jack Kinder
16. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. ~Henry Ward Beeche
17. I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. ~Fritz Perls
18. I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments. ~Michael Landon
19. I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing, and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team. ~Lou Holtz
20. 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
21. If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. ~Abraham Maslow
22. Life is largely a matter of expectation. ~Horace
23. Look and you will find it. What is unsought will go undetected. ~Sophocles
24. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only what you are expecting to give. ~Katherine Hepburn
25. Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself. ~Shannon Miller
26. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson
27. Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be. ~Goethe
28. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. ~William Congreve
29. We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out. ~Orison Swett Marden
30. We tend to live up to our expectations. ~Earl Nightingale
31. We usually get what we anticipate. ~Claude M. Bristol
32. We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. ~Brian Tracy
33. What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. ~Viktor E. Frankl
34. What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. ~Benjamin Disraeli
35. What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~John Lubbock
36. Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Brian Tracy
37. You have to expect things of yourselves before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
38. Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations. ~Brian Tracy