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A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
Expectation
Marcel Proust

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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
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Patricia Neal

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Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
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Peter Wastholm

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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Benjamin Franklin

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By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
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Giovanni Niccolini

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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Expectation
Aesop

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Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.
Expectation
Proverb

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Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
Expectation
Seneca

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Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
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Alice Walker

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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Denis Waitley

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Expect victory and you make victory.
Expectation
Preston Bradley

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Good is not good, when better is expected.
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Thomas Fuller

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High expectations are the key to everything.
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Sam Walton

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.
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Wayne Gretzky

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I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
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Lee Trevino

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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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Mary Decker Slaney

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If something can go wrong it will.
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(Edward A. Murphy, Jr.) Murphy's Law

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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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Zig Ziglar

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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Expectation
Malcolm S. Forbes

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In order to win, you must expect to win.
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Richard Bach

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It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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Horace

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Edgar Allan Poe

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun