Expectations Quotes

Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

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.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation.

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

Opportunity meets you at your level of expectation.

My worst expectations never happened.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.

When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful and anything is possible.

Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations - many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

Good things come to those with no expectations.

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.

Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.

We generally get the evil we expect.

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

I think expectations of Doctor Who should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better.

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.

Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

We have to change men's expectations, as they grow up, regarding their share of domestic work, of child care, but also of elder care, which is less pleasant and which men don't want to do.

Meeting expectations is good. Exceeding expectations is better.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.