Expectations Quotes - Page 2

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

When our expectations differ from better, we think bitter, but that is not better! Stay better, think positive, no matter what; there is always a better lesson to learn!

How much you can love others without expectations will define who you are.

Expectations create and shape reality.

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.

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

I promise, when you always expect the worst, you will not be disappointed.

Happiness is good management of expectations and good management means making order and assembling the contingent elements of the "do's'" and the "don'ts", the "maybe yes'" and the "maybe not's". When we really want to live in agreement with ourselves and find peace with the surrounding world, good management is liberating. ( " Expectations " )

Explore, experience, evolve, and exceed your expectations! - No Excuses!

People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

Attachment and Expectations are the two biggest killer elements of happiness in everyone's life.Learn the art to monitor and control these killers to bring happiness back in your LIFE!!!

Upholders may struggle in situations where expectations aren't clear or the rules aren't established. They may feel compelled to meet expectations, even ones that seem pointless. They may feel uneasy when they know they're breaking the rules, even unnecessary rules, unless they work out a powerful justification to do so.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided.

Nothing in life or love slipped easily into the tidy little box of his expectations.

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

When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you.

Because a child is bound to grow, society is intent upon cultivating the child’s mind to mature into a very specific type of responsible person. Children take great pleasure in small things that have no practical purpose in their dreamy world where they can be as wild as wind. Each year a part of the child dies, as it is burden with adult responsibilities.

Often expecting immediate returns for goodness in this world is a sign of a normal human being

Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation.

A world full of "certainties"All the plans, all the vanities.Where black covers the whiteSuited in "confidence"- the constant fight.A million roads I dream to takeOne destination, knowing not I turn where.A green veil covers for two years, some two decades.But the "plan" awaits, new roads to make.I pant, I struggle, I do my best While they say,"You are, dear, but so inadequate".

Prospect is often better than possession.

I notice you didn’t include a blade with your new attire,” Royce said. “Not even a little jeweled dagger.”“Lords no.” Albert looked appalled. “I don’t fight.”“I thought all nobles learned sword fighting.” Royce looked to Hadrian.“I thought so too.”“Nobles with competent fathers perhaps. I spent my formative years at my aunt’s at Huffington Manor. She held a daily salon, where a dozen noble ladies came to discuss all manner of philosophical topics, like how much they hated their husbands. I’ve never actually held a sword, but I can tie a mean corset and apply face paint like a gold-coin whore.

To expect more, be more.

Tell yourself often: I am going to tackle my aspirations head on with the passion and dedication necessary to exceed even my expectations.

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.

Ask any child who failed to live up to his parents’ idea of success, and you’ll likely hear that they never felt good enough, or that their parents had expectations that they could not live up to.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

After 25 the only thing you’ll be precocious at is death.

It only hurts us to love when we do so with expectation. And that’s not really love, anyway. Love has no expectations, no qualifiers, no conditions. Love is pure, untouched by our mind’s demands, untainted by our desperation and fear. Love can only be beautiful. It can only be divine. No, love doesn’t hurt, not when it’s real. Love empowers. It strengthens. It reminds us who we really are and why we’re really here. Love, more than anything else in this entire world, heals us.

There are two ways to avoid getting disappointed.Expect everything - or expect nothing.

History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?

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

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

That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.

Jesus' love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.

When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.

Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.

I never expected you to understand, but I did expect you to be there.

Who gets to be the judge of reality? If it was deeply felt, believed, spoken about often or altered your life course, then it was real enough. Faith doesn't get the luxury of all those things one hundred percent of the time, but we call that normal behavior based on a gut feeling.” I said. I looked at his wife and she busted out laughing. Her husband was trying to catch invisible butterflies above his head—dementia. My patients teach me the most sobering of truths: Why wreck his smile. If I could see them, I would want to catch them too.

Right expectations, from the right people at the right time, that’s the art of expecting.

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

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Every encounter with the external world presents a conflict with a person’s cherished inner world. How we resolve these ongoing boarder conflicts between reality and ideas results in tectonic shifts in our mental makeup, which influx we incorporate by responding to the never-ending chaos of a worldly life.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be.

Even the ones who love you most will let you down. They are the ones who will disappoint you more because your expectations of them are higher. When you feel like they have let you down, you need to realize that it is not them who have let you down, but it is only your expectations that were not met.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am me. And if by chance we find each other, it will be beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.