Being a little low, was trying to lift up my mood by reading some quotations. I found the following to be interesting and some of them contradicting:
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. - Alexander Pope
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. - Charlotte Bronte
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. - Edward de Bono
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. - William Congreve
Anger always comes from frustrated expectations. - Elliott Larson
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. - Brian Tracy
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. - Mark Twain
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. - Henry David Thoreau
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. - Brian Tracy
Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be. - Goethe
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now. - Anna Quindlen
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. - Dennis Wholey
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. - Mary Kay Ash
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly. - Samuel Johnson
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. - Ralph Marston
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only what you are expecting to give. - Katherine Hepburn
High expectations are the key to everything. - Sam Walton
Life is largely a matter of expectation. - Horace
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. - Samuel Johnson
It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation. - Samuel Johnson
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. - Kingman Brewster
