1. Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time. -Paulo Coelho
2. When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. -Donald Miller
3. The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action. -A. Godin
4. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. -Charles F. Kettering
5. Peace begins When expectation ends. -Sri Chinmoy
6. So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met? -Bill Watterson
7. A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. -Douglas Adams
8. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -Alexander Pope
9. Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected. -Norton Juster
10. Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. -Sebastian Horsley
11. 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
12. You can’t expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.-Jeff Kinney
13. Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. -Brandon Sanderson
14. That was the thing about the world: it wasn’t that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn’t expect. -Lev Grossman
15. You don’t ask nobody to give what they can’t give, or be what they can’t be. You’ve learnt that, you got a headstart on heartbreak. -Jack Farris
16. Expectation is the mother of all frustration. -Antonio Banderas
17. We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. -Ivan Illich
18. 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
19. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. -Orison Swett Marden
20. We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. -Samuel Johnson
21. 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
22. You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. -Zig Ziglar
23. We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for. -Elbert Hubbard
24. Good is not good, when better is expected. -Thomas Fuller
25. It’s a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -W. Somerset Maugham
26. Anger always comes from frustrated expectations -Elliott Larson
27. We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. -Henry David Thoreau
28. The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations. -Eli Khamarov
29. Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. -Ralph Marston
30. The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. -Confucius