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

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

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

If something can go wrong it will.

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

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

In order to win, you must expect to win.

It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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

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

Men… are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

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.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

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