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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
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Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
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You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him.
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Expect victory and you make victory.
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One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.
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Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level...
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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.
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Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
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Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
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Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Good is not good, when better is expected.
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Prospect is often better than possession.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.
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You begin by always expecting good things to happen
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
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I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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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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Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
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When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen.
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If something can go wrong it will.
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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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By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
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We tend to live up to our expectations.
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We tend to get what we expect.
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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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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A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
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Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.
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Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
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Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
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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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Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.
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The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
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Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
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We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
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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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Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
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Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.
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Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent.
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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