Expectations Quotes

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

You live up - or down - to your expectations.

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.

Expectations determine outcome, always!

I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

Become aware of your negative expectations and practice replacing them with positive expectations.

We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations... Lord, we come with great expectations.

Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.

What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

You can Light Up the Whole World by Giving without any Expectation Back.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

I’ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn’t feel right or isn’t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon.

The audience's expectations are ever-present.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.