Inspirational Quotes

These are some inspirational quotes about expectation.

Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.
~Aesop

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
~ Theodore Rubin

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
~ Joan Didion

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Life is largely a matter of expectation.
~Horace

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
~ Dennis Wholey

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
~ Confucius

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.
~ Patricia Neal

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.
~Oprah Winfrey

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.
~Tony Bright

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
~William Hazlitt

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
~ Bill Bradley

Here is one my favorite expectation quotes about limiting yourself with your own expectation.
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It’s a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
~W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
~George Eliot

Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( This will help you in managing expectations of your subordinates)

Everything comes if a man will only wait.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
~Robert H. Schuller

How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success.
~Sir Lewis Morris

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
~Coco Chanel

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
~ Lewis E. Lawes

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
~Napoleon Hill

Success is the sum of details.
~Harvey S. Firestone

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
~Theodore Roosevelt

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
~William Feather

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
~Robert Browning

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.
~ Elbert Hubbard

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
~Al Bernstein

If this fail, The pillar’d firmament is rottenness, And earth’s base built on stubble.
~ John Milton

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
~ Laurence J. Peter

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
~William Shakespeare

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?
~Kin Hubbard

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
~Colin Powell

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.
~Goldstein S. Truism

You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought.
~John Greenleaf Whittier

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
~Bishop Reginald Heber

Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
~Bob Brown

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. . .Failure always made me try harder next time.
~Michael Jordan

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
~George E. Woodberry

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
~Kahlil Gibran

Please don’t take this quote seriously. Many successful people are often Pricks:
:: I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
~ John D. Rockefeller

Starting with this famous quote by Karl Marx, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. ”
We have a compiled our collection of Motivational and inspirational quotes on Ability.

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” ~ John Wooden

“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” ~ Zig Ziglar

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.” ~Malcolm S Forbes

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”~ Rosalynn Carter

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ~Helen Keller

“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”~ Zig Ziglar

“Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.” ~Didacus Stella

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.” ~Malcolm S. Forbes

“As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given.” ~Mary Lou Retton

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. ” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.” ~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

“Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~Mother Teresa

“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.” ~Stevie Wonder

“Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.” ~Chinese proverb

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” ~Francis Bacon

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” ~Winston Churchill

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

“No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.” ~Andrew Carnegie

“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.” ~Abraham Maslow

“Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.” ~John Henry Newman