Expectation Quotes

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Although I enter not,
Yet round about the spot
Ofttimes I hover;
And near more

Although I enter not,
Yet round about the spot
Ofttimes I hover;
And near the sacred gate,
With longing eyes I wait,
Expectant of her.

'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation.

'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation.

Blessed are those that nought expect,
For they shall not be disappointed.

Blessed are those that nought expect,
For they shall not be disappointed.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be
expected to do.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be
expected to do.

I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my more

I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.

Many a time and oft
Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
To tow'rs and windows, more

Many a time and oft
Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
To tow'rs and windows, yea, to chimney tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.

Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of
expectation. Performance is ever duller for more

Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of
expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in
the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is
quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable;
performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great
sickness in his judgment that makes it.

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the
figure of a lamb the feats more

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the
figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered
expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.