Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-. Votes: 3
Emily DickinsonExpectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate. Votes: 3
Lionel SuggsExpectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was. Votes: 3
John SucklingKings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. Votes: 3
Hilaire BellocHigh achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Votes: 2
Charles KetteringLife is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Votes: 2
Charlotte BronteYou are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation. Votes: 2
Janelle MonaeThe best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation. Votes: 2
Sam Abellprospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceWhat interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity. Votes: 0
Richard CarlsonThe grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. Votes: 0
Wallace D. WattlesHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. Votes: 0
George EliotHe needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodOur expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others. Votes: 0
Victor Manuel RiveraWhen everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities. Votes: 0
Bryan CranstonThe expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself. Votes: 0
Marie BashkirtseffLove gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillBen's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk. Votes: 0
Walter SchlossIn the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithAbundance comes from within it comes from thought , intention, attention and expectation Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraI can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No. Votes: 0
Paddy AshdownI think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. Votes: 0
Jonathan SacksUncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. Votes: 0
William CongreveMeeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation. Votes: 0
Dhirubhai AmbaniIn both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized. Votes: 0
Ivan IllichPromising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareValue is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. Votes: 0
Barbara KingsolverBut then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. Votes: 0
Isoroku YamamotoMy greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect. Votes: 0
Ryan LillyYou stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward. Votes: 0
Ruta SepetysAny reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round. Votes: 0
Steven EriksonWe soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauIn a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere. Votes: 0
Will CottonHappiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation. Votes: 0
Tony RobbinsFaith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation. Votes: 0
Catherine BoothThere's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it. Votes: 0
Kathryn HahnAchievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. Votes: 0
Jack NicklausLove holds no expectation on what you will be, it simply values who you are. Votes: 0
E'yen A. GardnerPlease reduce the expectation in your tone when asking me how my day is going. Votes: 0
Dov DavidoffI, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such. Votes: 0
Daniel WoodrellAnyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoWhat makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukIt's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world. Votes: 0
Jeffrey PierceFriendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuLife is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation Votes: 0
Charlotte BronteAn ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness. Votes: 0
Dalai LamaMost of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation. Votes: 0
Adam McKayWe fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotI don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business. Votes: 0
Nic PizzolattoWhen you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaYou will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. Votes: 0
Bette DavisHelp others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return. Votes: 0
Roy BennettProbability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off. Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebFuture orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. Votes: 0
Alan DundesWith a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerThe main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea. Votes: 0
Agnes MartinA leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaI was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old. Votes: 0
Cathy FreemanI would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation. Votes: 0
Jack TrettonThe joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent. Votes: 0
SophoclesThat is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. Votes: 0
Amos Bronson AlcottTo love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love. Votes: 0
Criss JamiFace each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short. Votes: 0
Shannon MillerRemember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar. Votes: 0
RajneeshDeath, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. Votes: 0
Ellis PetersKeep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianThe test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return. Votes: 0
John OrtbergThey lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerWhen I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film. Votes: 0
Cate BlanchettWhat makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukThe word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope. Votes: 0
Louie GiglioWith success comes expectation and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high. Votes: 0
Rory McIlroyIt's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view. Votes: 0
Kevin PietersenNothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. Votes: 0
Leonard CohenI am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThere is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner... Votes: 0
Teju ColeWhen life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. Votes: 0
Dean KoontzTalent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. Votes: 0
David Foster WallaceHe who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom. Votes: 0
Bias of PrieneI don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do. Votes: 0
Jeremy RennerCaregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. Votes: 3 Gary Zukav
The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up. Votes: 3 Anuj
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. Votes: 3 Ivan Illich
I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled. Votes: 3 Lloyd Cutler
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. Votes: 1 Marya Mannes
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid. Votes: 1 Ayad Akhtar