Charles Dickens Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Expectations Quotes

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

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If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

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I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

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You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

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We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

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Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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