The world is not a wish-granting factory.
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
High expectations are the key to everything.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.
Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
What you think, so you will become.
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
Exceed your customer’s expectations. If you do, they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want – and a little more.
Set stretch goals. Don’t ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don’t sell yourself short by thinking that you’ll fail.
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.
Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.
Be happy in anticipation of what’s coming.
That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it-that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.
When you ask it is given – but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.
Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.