Laozi Quotes, Nature Quotes, Expectations Quotes

The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

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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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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

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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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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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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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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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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

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I didn't listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn't let it enter my brain. It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that. When you are in charge of a top club, where expectations are high you have to deal with that.

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

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

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Act without 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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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

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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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