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Expectation is the mother of all frustration. -- Antonio Banderas
Expectation is the springboard of achievement. -- Ngaio Marsh
Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety. -- Emily Dickinson
Expectation is a powerful attractive force. -- Rhonda Byrne
Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it. -- Hannah More
Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously. -- Michael Crichton
Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures. -- Rajneesh
Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment. -- Samuel Johnson
Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children. -- William Poundstone
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-. -- Emily Dickinson
Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment. -- Robert Fripp
Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate. -- Lionel Suggs
You can Light Up the Whole World by Giving without any Expectation Back. -- Wayne Dyer
Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity. -- Umberto Eco
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was. -- John Suckling
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. -- Hilaire Belloc
Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself. -- Brandon Sanderson
Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming. -- Martha Beck
Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it! -- Rajneesh
Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed. -- Brandon Sanderson
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
A desert is a place without expectation. -- Nadine Gordimer
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. -- Ivan Illich
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. -- Brian Tracy
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. -- Charles Kettering
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. -- Charlotte Bronte
You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation. -- Janelle Monae
I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed. -- Natalia Vodianova
The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation. -- Sam Abell
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. -- Samuel Johnson
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. -- Eric Hoffer
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. -- Orison Swett Marden
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. -- Elbert Hubbard
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. -- Leo Buscaglia
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. -- Princess Diana
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. -- Frances Burney
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. -- George Boole
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. -- Ramakrishna
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. -- Lyn Nofziger
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam. -- Jennifer Granholm
As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism. -- Patrick Stump
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. -- Ralph Marston
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation. -- Mariella Frostrup
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has. -- Christopher Hitchens
Act without expectation. -- Laozi
Peace beginsWhen expectation ends. -- Sri Chinmoy
Hope is a gracious expectation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Any expectation is what pain is. -- Jen Kirkman
expectation isn't the same as desire -- Margaret Atwood
Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another. -- Kate Morton
Patience is the absence of expectation. -- Shinichi Suzuki
Embrace each day with divine expectation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Have an attitude of positive expectation. -- Germany Kent
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear... -- John Suckling
Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility. -- Lee Patrick Mastelotto
My expectation is that technology always changes. -- Paula Scher
to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. -- Fanny Burney
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. -- Shana Alexander
Pray with expectation to get an answer. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Work ethic must exceed the expectation level. -- Tom Coughlin
Hope is an expectation of everyday miracle. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The threshold is the place of expectation. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is largely a matter of expectation. -- Horace
It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead. -- Sheila Ballantyne
The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero. -- Louis Bachelier
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one. -- Ambrose Bierce
Opportunity meets you at your level of expectation. -- Bill Bartmann
I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure. -- Elon Musk
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself -- Jane Austen
For every sacrifice, there is an expectation of reward. -- Wes Fesler
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. -- Amy Tan
The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness. -- Dov Davidoff
Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful. -- Deanna Raybourn
Good people always rise to your level of expectation. -- John C. Maxwell
Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality. -- John C. Maxwell
prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden. -- Ambrose Bierce
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) -- Elizabeth Gilbert
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Being kind without expectation is the truest kind of kindness. -- Zero Dean
I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. -- Aleksandar Hemon
WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior. -- Les Brown
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. -- George Eliot
True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation. -- C. S. Lewis
We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance. -- Matt Redman
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. -- Samuel Alexander
Give to another human being without the expectation of a return. -- Bill Bradley
How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation! -- Mary Collyer
What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity. -- Richard Carlson
I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way. -- Emma Watson
An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence. -- Dee Dee Artner
Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him. -- Kevin Leman
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire
Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay. -- Carolyn Hax
The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation? -- Laozi
I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation. -- James Vincent McMorrow
Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best. -- Joseph Murphy
Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk. -- Walter Schloss
Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others. -- Victor Manuel Rivera
Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. -- Bryant McGill
He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation. -- Margaret Atwood
When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities. -- Bryan Cranston
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward... -- Ramakrishna
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. -- Brian Tracy
Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice. -- Raheel Farooq
For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration. -- Alanis Morissette
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation. -- Michel de Montaigne
The lower your expectation the easier and happier your life will be -- Dee Dee Artner
I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk. -- Leonard Cohen
Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime? -- Linda Tripp
Abundance comes from within it comes from thought , intention, attention and expectation -- Deepak Chopra
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself. -- Marie Bashkirtseff
Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation. -- Jan Morris
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. -- William Congreve
In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized. -- Ivan Illich

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