Positive Expectations Quotes

The worst has happened. The best is next.

Have an attitude of positive expectation.

Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.

When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.

It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

Become aware of your negative expectations and practice replacing them with positive expectations.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

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

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

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion, but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help to bring about what is desired and makes the wait more enjoyable.]

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

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

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other

If you think you can't, you're right.

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being.

The Universe is abundant with everything that you want. It's not testing you. It's benevolently providing for you. But you are the orchestrater. You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation. If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster, that would serve you very, very well, it is positive expectation. It is excited anticipation.

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.