Top 90 Expectations Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

— Michelangelo

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2. “High expectations are the key to everything.”

— Sam Walton

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3. “An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.”

— Brian Tracy

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4. “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

— John Green

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5. “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

— Bill Gates

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6. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

— Zig Ziglar

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7. “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”

— Richard P. Feynman

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8. “Better is not good enough; the best is yet to come!”

— T. B. Joshua

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9. “I deserve the best and I accept the best now.”

— Louise Hay

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10. “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

— John Green

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11. “What you think about you bring about.”

— Bob Proctor

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12. “The world is yourself pushed out. Ask yourself what you want and then give it to yourself! Do not question how it will come about; just go your way knowing that the evidence of what you have done must appear, and it will.”

— Neville Goddard

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13. “Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

— Orrin Woodward

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14. “Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.”

— John C. Maxwell

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15. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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16. “Expect the unexpected.”

— Bear Bryant

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17. “You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.”

— Bruce Lee

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18. “A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.”

— Charles Erwin Wilson

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19. “If you think you can do it, you can.”

— John Burroughs

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20. “Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.”

— Brian Tracy

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21. “Do what you say you will do.”

— James M. Kouzes

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22. “Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.”

— Laurence Overmire

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Disappointment Quotes

23. “Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.”

— Joseph Murphy

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24. “Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.”

— Dhirubhai Ambani

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25. “Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will.”

— Neville Goddard

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26. “Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.”

— Oral Roberts

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27. “If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.”

— T.D. Jakes

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28. “High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”

— Charles F. Kettering

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29. “Exceeding expectations is where satisfaction ends and loyalty begins.”

— Ron Kaufman

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30. “Be happy in anticipation of what’s coming.”

— Esther Hicks

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31. “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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32. “Affirm it, visualize it, believe it and it will actualize itself.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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33. “Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.”

— Jim Rohn

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34. “Meeting expectations is good. Exceeding expectations is better.”

— Ron Kaufman

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35. “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”

— Maureen Dowd

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36. “Always do more than is required of you.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

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37. “Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.”

— Gary W. Keller

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38. “If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you’d like to win, but you think you can’t, it is almost a cinch that you won’t.”

— Walter D. Wintle

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39. “If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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40. “Today could be the start of something amazing.”

— Joel Osteen

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41. “You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!”

— Brian Tracy

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42. “Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.”

— Ralph Marston

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43. “Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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44. “Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

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45. “Perform at your best when your best is required. Your best is required each day.”

— John Wooden

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46. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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47. “If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.”

— Denis Waitley

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48. “Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life.”

— Joseph Murphy

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49. “When you ask it is given – but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.”

— Esther Hicks

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50. “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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