Charles Dickens Quotes, Self Quotes, Expectations Quotes

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

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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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

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You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

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It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

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

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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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God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

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Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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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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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

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

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Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.

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The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

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