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I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.
-Anon.
Unattributed Author, Spectator (no. 7), an English periodical (1711 - 1712)
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Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.
-Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
-Aesop
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
-Woody Allen
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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.
-Greg Anderson
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
-Richard Bach
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Death affords those who are left an opportunity to reevaluate everything. And though we would give all we have to defer that opportunity, it exists anyway. It allows us to see the flimsiness of our expectations, to realize there is not expectation without disappointment; it allows us the possibility to being more sensitive, more vulnerable, to let others support us, and to notice the integrity and love often left unobserved in life's fast pace. Mainly, it gives us the chance to live life in the present.
-Joan Bordow
The Ultimate Loss
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Expect victory and you make victory.
-Preston Bradley
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One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.
-Tony Bright
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We usually get what we anticipate.
-Claude M. Bristol
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Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
-Charlotte Bronte
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Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level...
-Eileen Caddy
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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.
-Edgar Cayce
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-Edgar Cayce
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Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
-Ralph Charell
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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.
-Claud Cockburn
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Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
-Richard M. DeVos
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Tancred (bk. IV, ch. VIII)
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What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty. But the man who has always pinned all his hopes on the future and lived with his eyes fixed upon it, has nothing in the past as a comfort against the present's afflictions, for the past was nothing to him but a series of hastily experienced stages. What blinded him to himself was his expectation always to find further on the happiness he had so far missed. Now he is stopped in his tracks; from now on nothing remains behind or ahead of him to fix his gaze upon.
-Emile Durkheim
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
-George Eliot
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Good is not good, when better is expected.
-Thomas Fuller
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Books about Expectation
