Baltasar Gracian Quotes about Expectations

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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

Baltasar Gracian

People, Expectations, Each Day

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

Baltasar Gracian

Expectations, Advice, Promise

Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

Baltasar Gracian

Reality, People, Expectations

"The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 19, 1647.

Baltasar Gracian Quotes about Expectations

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