I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives. – Anon.
Dont cross the bridge till you come to it. – Proverb
Dont count your chickens before they are hatched. – Aesop
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. – Woody Allen
In order to win, you must expect to win. – Richard Bach
Expect victory and you make victory. – Preston Bradley
One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation. – Tony Bright
We usually get what we anticipate. – Claude M. Bristol
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. – Charlotte Bronte
Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level… – Eileen Caddy
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. – Edgar Cayce
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. – Ralph Charell
Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way its 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. – Claud Cockburn
Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. – Richard M. DeVos
Everything comes if a man will only wait. – Benjamin Disraeli
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. – Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. – George Eliot
How much of human life is lost in waiting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you expect nothing, youre apt to be surprised. Youll get it. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Good is not good, when better is expected. – Thomas Fuller
