Quotes: expectation
Quotes 1 till 15 of 19.
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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.
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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.
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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
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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.
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
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Seneca
Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright
5 BC - 65 A.D.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
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