People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you’ve somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
—Richard Thalheimer (b.1948) American Entrepreneur
We usually get what we anticipate.
—Claude M. Bristol (1891–1951) American Journalist, Self-Help Author
High expectations are the key to everything.
—Sam Walton (1918–92) American Entrepreneur, Businessperson
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.
—Thomas Merton (1915–68) American Trappist Monk
Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.
—Aesop (620–564 BCE) Greek Fabulist
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81) British Head of State
If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
—Heraclitus (535BCE–475BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher
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 (b.1975) American Sportsperson
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
—William Congreve (1670–1729) English Playwright, Poet
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than expectation.
—Owen Feltham (1602–1668) English Essayist
A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer’s leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life, I find.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
Don’t cross the bridge till you come to it.
—Common Proverb
Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
—Margaret Mitchell (1900–49) American Novelist, Journalist
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright & happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) American Poet
Satisfaction with an experience depends significantly on our expectations going into it.
—Ben Casnocha (b.1988) American Entrepreneur
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
—Michael Jordan (b.1963) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent.
—Unknown
When you expect things to happen—strangely enough—they do happen.
—J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) American Financier, Philanthropist, Art Collector
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
—William Congreve (1670–1729) English Playwright, Poet
We tend to get what we expect.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
—Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek Novelist, Poet, Dramatist
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much—if he lives and uses that in hand day by day—shall be full to running over.
—Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) American Faith Healer
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
—Alice Walker (b.1944) American Novelist, Activist
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
—Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson
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