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«Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill. But don't expect them to succeed in business.»
«When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Ability, Work | Keywords: expect, skill
«The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.»
«When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.»
«The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it»
«We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.»
«Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.»
«Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.»
«The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them»
«We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.»

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