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“Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.”
Richard M. DeVos
“I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.”
Fritz Perls
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”
Confucius
“The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better”
Barbara Pletcher
“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
“Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.”
A. A. Milne
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward
“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.”
Kingman Brewster
