If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

What else remains for me?
Youth, hope and love;
To build a new life on a ruined read more

What else remains for me?
Youth, hope and love;
To build a new life on a ruined life.

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

Serene I told my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;
I rave read more

Serene I told my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of
tears, and a declaration that nothing read more

I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of
tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail;
and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting
bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was
his favorite expression.