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

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about purpose, happiness, mind, contentment

We tend to get what we expect.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale

I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way.

Quote by Stuart Pearce about life, work, people

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Quote by Minnie Pearl about god, work

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

Quote by William Penn about opinion, being, things, good, good luck, life

I don't believe in personal immortality, the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about immortality, books, faith, things

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love, personality, value, stores, nothing, people

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Quote by Erich Fromm about activity, love

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Quote by Mark Twain about people, rightness, time, man

Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life, a belief of the forgotten being inside me, the stranger that I am, headed for nowhere, knowing that where it is I will find my fulfilment through...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about love, saints, faith, destiny, religion, death, being, contentment, life

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about opinion, contentment

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

Quote by Joel Siegel about film

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

Quote by Khalil Gibran about love, flowers, heart, contentment

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. "

Quote by Charles W. Eliot about world, contentment

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Quote by Stevie Wonder about opinion, life, people, contentment

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Quote by Robert Falcon Scott about expectation, waste, patience, day, things

If we know how to receive with an open soul the joys, if we are always expecting thirsty the happiness, we must know to receive the blows and misfortunes, too, we must expect unhappiness, as well.

Quote by Liviu Rebreanu about unhappiness, happiness, soul

Do not expect peace with the enemy whose worth you do not recognize.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about enemies, peace, wisdom, contentment

Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect from it.

Quote by Margaret Mitchell about life

Death is an accident that we are expecting from the first day od life.

Quote by Şerban Ionescu about death, day, life