Expectations Quotes

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

Audiences = expectations. If he thinks you're not watching, he won't need to rebel against your expectations.

Expectations. Strong belief something will happen in the future.Pressure. A motivator. A positive. An indicator you are in the right place.

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.

Behind every "I don't expect anything from you",there are buried expectations.

I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.

A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.

You cannot win anymore even if you do your best. Because everyone is doing their best. In order to win, you have to do more than you best.

Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.

You can't expect to reap a harvest that you're not willing to plant.

Real love when it comes, it doesn't look like anything you'd expect.

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, you’re going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life.

I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.

A man must know the expectations of his woman and a woman must know the expectations of her man.

Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of one or the other that either a bright outlook or dim expectations becomes your regular illusion.

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

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.

If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.

The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.

Creepy is being attached to an outcome. If you approach someone with the goal of sex, and hten find thins not going in that direction, you may try to steer things back to sex. This is creepy.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

I hope you do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

When perception, thoughtfulness and understanding do meet, we can fashion a range of viable expectations and craft a world of togetherness. ("Morning after")

When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.

Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don't forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free from an unhealthy attachment to our expectations.

Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was not the way final exams were supposed to go.

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

What do you expect—not indifference or ingratitude?’ (-Miss Benson) ‘It is better not to expect or calculate consequences. The longer I live, the more fully I see that. Let us try simply to do right actions, without thinking of the feelings they are to call out in others. We know that no holy or self-denying effort can fall to the ground vain and useless; but the sweep of eternity is large, and God along knows when the effect is to be produced. We are trying to do right now, and to feel right; don’t let us perplex ourselves with endeavoring to map out how she should feel, or how she should show her feelings.’ (-Thurstan)

In addition to being statistically unlikely, perfectly fulfilled expectations are boring. We assume that we, in our infinite wisdom, are capable of imagining the best, most optimal outcomes for ourselves. But as it turns out, unfettered reality and unexpected detours are often the very things that force us to come into our own.

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

Always expect that something beautiful and wonderful will happen to fill life with beauty.

The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame on the darkness in broad daylight.

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

Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.

People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words.

Life will fulfill your expectations.

When questioning ourselves, we must identify, where we are heading to. Do we prefer our life to remain untitled. Will we stand bare and naked without dressing any expectations or do we decide to interact with the world around. Will we play a part on the stage of life or do we choose to remain simply a chapter without heading, an episode without caption, an untitled interval. ("Life untitled" )

Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed I was due a love story.

An imaginary friend once asked me why Americans can't stand Russia. The answer was cold, deadly, silent, and, well expected. It’s because in Soviet Russia nothing happens anymore, because it doesn’t exist anymore. And Americans are all about happenings. If there isn’t one – they don’t go where it isn’t, because there isn’t anything to happen to them there.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing.

a lot of happiness lead a person to disappointments.

When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

Live without expectations. Don’t set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life’s treasures.

Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness

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

And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.