Expectations Quotes

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

We have to reduce our expectations of England and we have the players to do it

Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we’re all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers’ expectations every day.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.

Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

You should never, ever, let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You have a choice whether to meet others expectations of you, or strive to meet your own.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

no expectations, no disappointments!

I have great confidence in Rene and high expectations for our squad to respond.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations, just be the best you can be

There are “bus bench” workouts and “park bench” workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.