Expectation Quotes

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy.

Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.

All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelet of yours?

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Service without reward is punishment.

We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

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.

Anything free is worth what you pay for it

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

I don't like failing at anything.

I am Vice President. I am nothing but I may be everything.