We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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  1. To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect - Jane Austen

  2. Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself. - Steve Maraboli

  3. Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. - Patricia McCormick

  4. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)] - Stephen Hawking

  5. Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. - Brian Tracy

More Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes
  1. A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~

  2. To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  3. You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part...

  4. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  5. I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self....

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