“We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.”
“If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”
“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.”
“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.”
“You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.”
“You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him.”
“Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.”
“Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
“A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.”
“I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.”
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”
“Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.”
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
“It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
“Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.”
“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”
“Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level...”
“Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.”
“If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.”
“We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.”
“If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.”
“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”
“People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.”
“Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.”