Expectations Quotes

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.

If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

Peace begins When expectation ends.

In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

No one rises to low expectations

Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

As a creator, I always want to betray fans expectations.