Expectations Quotes

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

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie ...

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at ...

Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inev...

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects ...

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectation...

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects ...

I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleas...

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owe...

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of los...

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as fut...

[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy...

It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

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

Only expectation has value as currency,

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yoursel...

It is easy to see how quickly expectations become layered, competitive and conflicting. This is how ...

Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community e...

Folks write down the name of someone who fills them with frustration, disappointment, and/or resentm...

This doesn't mean that we stop helping people set goals or that we stop expecting people to grow and...

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

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to min...

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really l...

What you have made me see,' answered the Lady, 'is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Y...

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they tha...

And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is n...

Every time they saw him, they recognized him and knew him and expected things of him. And every time...

On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into ...

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of t...

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...

It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for the...

You need to claim the driver's seat," Cash said. "Never take a backseat in your own life! You gotta ...

People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first s...

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.

When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous...

People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.

Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the ...

One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're play...

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little ...

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas mi...

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not...

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That d...

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts ...

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

What do you expect—not indifference or ingratitude?’ (-Miss Benson) ‘It is better not to expect or c...

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far moreconfidence in what God can do for...

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m ...

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

One always expects something else.

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why...

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in ...

The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass...

She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic...

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest py...

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So w...

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best ...

People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams." - George Weasly

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's la...

And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursui...

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

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

One must not expect every thing.

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an...

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you'v...