Expectations Quotes · Page 25

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

— Norton Juster

“life's greatest disappointments come from the highest expectations.”

— Anita Papas

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

— Ann Brashares

We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance.

— Matt Redman

We spend too much time wondering why we're not good enough.

— Anonymous

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

— Alex Kapranos

“There y’all go again,” Stephanie said. “Low expectations.” Cyd”

— Kim Cash Tate

I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.

— Anne-Marie

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

— Kathy Acker

You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make…

— Jesse Williams

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

— Shigeru Yoshida

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

— Criss Jami

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

— Susanna Kaysen

I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far…

— Vanessa Kerry

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say…

— Thomas A. Edison

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have…

— Anonymous

The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their…

— Tom Scholz

I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations…

— Gabe Newell

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have…

— Laure Manaudou

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth.…

— Alison McGhee

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming…

— Henri Nouwen

There's something about the energy and the expectations that an audience projects at you. I get up on stage and work and…

— Jimmy Barnes

So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic…

— Laura Poitras

Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose…

— J. K. Rowling

Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in…

— Wole Soyinka

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being…

— Shane Claiborne

Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater…

— Mary Pipher

It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of…

— Samuel Johnson

If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens,…

— Edward S. Herman

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected —…

— Marilynne Robinson

Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become…

— Ron Suskind

Opportunity meets you at your level of expectation.

— Bill Bartmann

Meeting expectations is good. Exceeding expectations is better.

— Ron Kaufman

If I don't fulfill other people's expectations, that's not my problem. I set my own goals.

— Jozy Altidore

I have very high expectations of myself and what I want to do.

— Nelson Agholor

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

— Terrell Owens

I had expectations to go back to college and get my name out there more.

— Eddy Alvarez

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

— Stephen Hawking

Such low expectations for basically everything, and still I manage to be disappointed.

— Anonymous