T. S. Eliot Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Expectations Quotes

We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

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

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

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The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

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We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.

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I'm the master of low expectations.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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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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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

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Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

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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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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

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Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

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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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