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“In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.”

“No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.”

Believe Children Ends Successful Violence Society Expectations Tales

Author:Margaret Mead

“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.”

“Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.”

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Author:Tony Robbins

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”

Source: As I am: an autobiography

“Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.”

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Author:Susan Jacoby

“Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.”

“When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.”

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Author:Frances O'Grady

“Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization is to convince us that the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by social consensus.”

“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.”

“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.”

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Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Most people don't like to think. This is why human religions are so popular. It almost doesn't matter what the belief system is, as long as it's firm, consistent, clear in its expectation of the follower, and rigid. Given those characteristics, you can find people who believe in almost anything. It's God's way, they say. God's word. And there are those who will accept that. Gladly. Because, you see, it eliminates the need to think.”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.”

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Book:Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader

Source: Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader

“Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give whatever the beloved wants. Surrender is being alert to exactly what is happening now, not imposing expectations from the past. Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything, even when you cannot foresee the outcome of a situation.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.”

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Book:Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit

Source: Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit

“Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.”

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Author:Roger Bannister

“Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments”

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Author:Confucius

“What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.”

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Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.”

Thinking Believe Happens Positive Thinking Tomorrow Expectations Sells Filled Excited Plenty

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.”

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Book:Universal Laws of Success

Source: Universal Laws of Success

“As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.”

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Author:Frederick William Robertson

“Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.”

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Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

“One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.”

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Author:Robin Meade

“The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.”

Inspirational Action Attitude Quality Expectations Determine Our Actions

Author:Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin

“In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.”

Feels Expectations Victim Corners Immigration Outsiders Shrinking

Author:Oscar Handlin

“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.”

“He who awaits much can expect little.”

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Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.”

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Book:Common Sense on Mutual Funds

Source: Common Sense on Mutual Funds

“The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.”

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Book:Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Source: Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.”

Source: Purpose in Prayer

“He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.”

“So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.”

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Author:Gavin DeGraw

“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”

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Author:Denis Waitley

“Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.”

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Author:Denis Waitley

“Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.”

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Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

“Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.”

“Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.”

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Author:Roy H. Williams

“It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.”

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Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

“The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.”

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Author:Paul Fleischman

“Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.”

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Author:Shannon Miller

“When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.”

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Author:Jade Edmistone