Expectations Quotes - Page 38

• To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Past, Long, Gains

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• It's going to be tough but I think I was more nervous about playing NRL than I will be playing this match simply because I've got Billy Slater in front of me and there were a lot of expectations.

  Gareth Widdop

  Thinking, Nrl, Rugby League

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• Act without expectation.

  Laozi

  Taoism

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• Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

  Laozi

  Taoism, Kind, Guides

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• The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps. When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses. and When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Determination, Keys, Focus

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Here is what Muslims and Muslim organizations are expected to say: "As a Muslim, I condemn this attack and terrorism in any form." This expectation we place on Muslims, to be absolutely clear, is Islamophobic and bigoted.

  Max Fisher

  Organization, Terrorism, Form

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• I have great confidence in Rene and high expectations for our squad to respond.

  Shahid Khan

  Football, Squad, League

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• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.

  Earl Nightingale

  Attitude, Mirrors, Play

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• You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.

  Charles Kuralt

  Kindness, Long, People

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• The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal rights as appears in said Constitution, ought to be treated by those to whom the administration of the laws is entrusted with as much sanctity as the prayers of the Saints are treated in heaven, that love, confidence, and union, like the sun, moon, and stars, should bear witness.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, Stars, Freedom

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• It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

  Quentin Crisp

  Real, Emotional, Self

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• Expectation is a powerful attractive force.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Powerful, Law Of Attraction, Attractive

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

  Marianne Williamson

  God, Love You, Feelings

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.59, Penguin

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  We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Girl, Powerful, Moving

  Twitter post from Mar 11, 2014

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• Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because "the spiritual" is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Spiritual, Self, Gardening

  Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham (2009). “The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning”, p.31, Bantam

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• When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.29, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Long, Lasts

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.473, Courier Corporation

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• Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Reality, Creating, Grace

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• Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

  Dennis Prager

  Ruins, Chance

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• The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

  Dennis Prager

  Grateful, Be Grateful, Ifs

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• You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations, just be the best you can be

  Joel Osteen

  Being The Best

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• True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Found, True Faith

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• The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Country, Jobs

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• Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Acceptance, Peaceful, Mind

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