Top 90 Expectations Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.”

— Edwin Louis Cole

52. “The future you see is the future you get.”

— Robert G. Allen

53. “Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

— Charlotte Brontë

54. “If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.”

— Tonya Hurley

55. “When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

56. “Exceed your customer’s expectations. If you do, they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want – and a little more.”

— Sam Walton

57. “Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life.”

— Rhonda Byrne

58. “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”

— Brad Paisley

59. “You will become what you believe. The truth is, I am what I am today because of what I believed about myself yesterday. And I will be tomorrow what I believe about myself right now.”

— Joel Osteen

60. “When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable – if there are no consequences – that poor performance becomes the new standard.”

— Jocko Willink

61. “Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”

— Susan L. Taylor

62. “Expect great things, and great things will come.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

63. “If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.”

— Vince Lombardi

64. “That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it-that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.”

— Esther Hicks

65. “Expectations are resentments under construction.”

— Anne Lamott

66. “Treat a child as though he already is the person he’s capable of becoming.”

— Haim G. Ginott

67. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.”

— Napoleon Hill

68. “When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

69. “The first step in exceeding your customer’s expectations is to know those expectations.”

— Roy H. Williams

70. “Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students’ lives really do.”

— Andy Hargreaves

71. “She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

72. “Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.”

— Lou Holtz

73. “You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can’t accomplish.”

— Joel Osteen

74. “Hope springs eternal.”

— Alexander Pope

75. “Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.”

— Larry Winget

76. “Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.”

— Epictetus

77. “You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.”

— Thomas S. Monson

78. “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

— Orison Swett Marden

79. “What you think, so you will become.”

— Napoleon Hill

80. “The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.”

— Denis Waitley

81. “Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new job. That imaginal act now goes forward and you will encounter this pleasant experience in the future.”

— Neville Goddard

82. “Remember: what you think you will become – good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

83. “The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group. Choose your peers wisely.”

— Tony Robbins

84. “Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.”

— Brian Tracy

85. “Believe it can be done. When you really believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it.”

— David J. Schwartz

86. “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”

— Wendy Wasserstein

87. “Expectation is a powerful attractive force.”

— Rhonda Byrne

88. “Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”

— John Maynard Keynes

89. “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”

— Dr. Seuss

90. “In order to win, you must expect to win.”

— Richard Bach

91. “Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.”

— John Wooden

92. “No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.”

— Jude Morgan

93. “Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.”

— Ellen G. White

94. “Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.”

— Joel Osteen

95. “Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can’t, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.”

— David J. Schwartz

96. “Set stretch goals. Don’t ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don’t sell yourself short by thinking that you’ll fail.”

— Jack Welch