We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas Jefferson

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Zig Ziglar

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark Twain

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil Gibran

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

We tend to get what we expect.
Norman Vincent Peale

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
W. C. Fields

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Henry David Thoreau

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
Jim Rohn

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Brian Tracy

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
Les Brown