You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him.

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much -- if he lives and uses that in hand day by day -- shall be full to running over.

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

If something can go wrong it will.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

High expectations are the key to everything.