Expectation Quotes

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Alan Watts Quote - The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories. Free

Alan Watts

The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quote - To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces – desire, belief, and expectation. Free

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces – desire, belief, and expectation.

Alan Watts Quote - If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death. Free

Alan Watts

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Adam Smith Quote - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. Free

Adam Smith

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Alan Watts Quote - Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated. Free

Alan Watts

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.

Oscar Wilde Quote - How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. Free

Oscar Wilde

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Adam Smith Quote - Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature. Free

Adam Smith

Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

Alexander Hamilton Quote - Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. Free

Alexander Hamilton

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Amy Winehouse Quote - I was expecting it to be cynical because I’m like that myself. I wouldn’t want it to be all roses because life isn’t like that. Free

Amy Winehouse

I was expecting it to be cynical because I’m like that myself. I wouldn’t want it to be all roses because life isn’t like that.

Alexander Pope Quote - Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. Free

Alexander Pope

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Alexander Pope Quote - Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest. Free

Alexander Pope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Free

Ambrose Bierce

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Anais Nin Quote - How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. Free

Anais Nin

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

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