Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best read more

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."

He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by read more

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations

'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation.

'Tis silence all,
And pleasing 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.

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.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.