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Has anyone let you down? Have you been hoping for something that has not been met? Have the results of some personal quest not met up with the vision that you had? Well, all of us have some expectations in life. Be it a job or a relationship we always hope and look forward to something that the future holds for us. But, when our expectations are not met, most of us lose hope. Read on for some of the famous expectations quotes and sayings of all time.

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A woman is only a woman.

Rudyard Kipling

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Chuck Palahniuk

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Erich Fromm

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

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

Anais Nin

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Germaine Greer

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Michael Jordan

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Mother Teresa

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

Val Kilmer

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Dolly Parton

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

B. C. Forbes

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

John Calvin

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

Jimmy Buffett

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Jack London

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Ovid

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

Thomas Hardy

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Robert Fulghum

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

Robert Fulghum

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Saint Augustine

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

Tom Petty

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Andrew Carnegie

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation .

Elbert Hubbard

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Kahlil Gibran

What is the world coming to?

Ozzy Osbourne

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Og Mandino

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

Jimmy Page

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.

Eddie Murphy

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Stevie Wonder

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Norman Vincent Peale

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Alexander Hamilton

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwab

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

Babe Ruth

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

Edgar Cayce

In a dream you are never eighty.

Anne Sexton

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Arundhati Roy

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

Arundhati Roy

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

Mariah Carey

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Chief Joseph

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

Chief Joseph

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Umberto Eco

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Eric Hoffer

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

Chris Rock

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Margaret Cho

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

David Hume

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

Denis Waitley

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Frank Sinatra

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Frank Sinatra

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Henry Rollins

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Mark Twain

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Cary Grant

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Harriet Tubman

I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Woody Allen

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

George Harrison

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Charles Lindbergh

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected.

Lee Iacocca

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.

Louisa May Alcott

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them

Richard M. Nixon

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

Gilda Radner

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

Gilda Radner

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

Dylan Moran

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Heraclitus

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

Ambrose Bierce

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

Bobby Knight

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

Thomas Huxley

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

Jonathan Swift

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Princess Diana

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

Mary Kay Ash

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

Tom Stoppard

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

Noel Coward

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

George Santayana

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Andrew Johnson

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

Patti Smith

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Arthur Ashe

If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.

Bette Midler

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

Diane Arbus

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

Eddie Izzard

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

Penelope Cruz

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.