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
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. — Jack Kinder
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. — John Steinbeck
Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams. — James Franco
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself. — Shannon Miller
To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus
Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
Great accomplishments start with great aspirations. — Gary Hamel
Top 10 Great Expectations Quotes
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. — Charles Dickens
If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens — J. J. Watt
Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege. — Lucretia Mott
The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days. — Ray Wylie Hubbard
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. — Claude Bissell
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations. — Norman Cousins
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated. — Sylvester Stallone
What separates us is that we expect to be great. — Deion Sanders
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens
Great Expectations Image Quotes
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Great Expectations Important Quotes
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. — Charles Dickens
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. — Charles Dickens
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. — Charles Dickens
Silence is a source of great strength.
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. — Charles Dickens
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. — Charles Dickens
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. — Charles Dickens
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends. — Charles Dickens
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one. — Charles Dickens
It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores. — Charles Dickens
High Expectations Quotes
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself. — Chronixx
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. — Jodi Picoult
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations. — Jim Harbaugh
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff. — Judi Dench
To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game. — Kerri Walsh
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
Mobile devices, high-speed data communication, and online commerce are creating expectations that convenient, secure, real-time payment and banking capabilities should be available whenever and wherever they are needed. — Jerome Powell
Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them. — Sayings
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months. — Irving Fisher
In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose. — Molly Ivins
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! — Andrew Murray
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way. — Anton Chekhov
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it. — Adam Weishaupt
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. — Isoroku Yamamoto
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence. — Margaret Mead
You don't show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens
in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. — Michael Jordan
People in any field rise to the expectations set for them. — Jeff Lawson
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world. — Daniel J. Boorstin
As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state. — Rick Larsen
I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. — Emily Watson
The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense. — Antonin Dvorak
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact. — Andre Derain
Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong. — Don Porter
Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray. — R. A. Torrey
You can’t do the same things others do and expect to outperform. — Howard S. Marks
No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills. — Jean Harlow
Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen. — Norman Vincent Peale
Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to. — Taylor Mali
It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. — Pamela Anderson
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. — Henry David Thoreau
Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business. — Theodore Roosevelt
When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it. — Jared Spool
These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age. — Tablo
I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya — Danielle Steel
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? — Charles Dickens
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