Expectations Quotes

All of us can meet God's high expectations.

I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

There's no straighter road to success than exceeding expectations one day at a time.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy...

We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance.

I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

Expectation is a powerful attractive force.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U...!!!

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me.

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.