Expectation

(250 votes)   Prospect is often better than possession.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(205 votes)   Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1841-1935, American Judge

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(190 votes)   You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan
1963-, American Basketball Player, Actor

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(168 votes)   Good is not good, when better is expected.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(155 votes)   I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(122 votes)   We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

Marquis De Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Moralist

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(116 votes)   Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(109 votes)   It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(105 votes)   How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(105 votes)   Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(102 votes)   Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Richard M. DeVos
1926-, American Businessman, Co-founder of Amway Corp.

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(89 votes)   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

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(85 votes)   Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.

Peter Wastholm

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(73 votes)   Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(68 votes)   Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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