Expectations Quotes · Page 33

“Always go into new experiences with low expectations so as to always be pleasantly surprised.”

— Mara Altman

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

— Laozi

True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.

— Anonymous

Holding on to expectations is often the source of unforgiving feelings.

— Virginia H. Pearce

If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.

— Mesut Ozil

Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

— George W. Bush

Everybody wants quick results, expectations through the roof.

— John Smoltz

I like expectations, with expectations, you have people coming at you from a place of doubt.

— Jerry Ferrara

The biggest problems come in when you have talent and expectations but you don't work hard. That's a big disappointment.

— Jerome Bettis

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal…

— Jeff Lindsay

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference,…

— Thomas J. Sargent

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.

— Wilfred Owen

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass…

— Michelle Obama

Expecting too much in life will only make the heart and soul thirst, expecting less can surprisingly give you enough of what…

— Ritu Ghatourey

In my view, the critical questions in this era of mass incarceration are: What disturbs us? What seems contrary to expectation? Who…

— Michelle Alexander

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

— Michael Howard

When you go into to vacationing with kids, what people don't get is that there is a portion of it that's going…

— Busy Philipps

Just because an employee does things differently doesn't mean he or she won't do the job right or as well. If you…

— Harvey Mackay

If you go into any department store these days, your picture is probably taken 30 times. In London there are 500,000 cameras…

— Raymond Kelly

I think expectations might be preceding reality, ... In the long run we've got some real opportunity here, but we've come a…

— Michael Davies

I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live…

— Henri Nouwen

Sequels are generally done in a rush. They're done with a sense of urgency. The first time, you spend a long time…

— Alex Garland

When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And…

— Rachel Bloom

Whatsoever you are waiting for, you are waiting in vain. It is not going to happen, and what is going to happen…

— Rajneesh

So somebody comes along and gets to me. They get me angry or uptight or they awaken some desire in me, wow…

— Ram Dass

As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly,…

— Dave Hickey

“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her,…

— V.C. Andrews

While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph…

— Allan F. Packer

I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“The joy of having something comes from the length of time you have been wanting it, expecting it. Happiness really lies in…

— Osho

But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments…

— Eusebius

Life is NOT Supposed to be Fair. Know that there is no single way that life is supposed to be. Demanding that…

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

— Louie Giglio

Be a good listener. Dont always talk about Yourself.

— Senoraroy

“If I’d just quit making ropes I’d no longer be at the end of one.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I deal with expectations by not putting myself higher than the team.

— Jabari Parker

I really don't ask or expect much from people, just loyalty and honesty.

— Anonymous

The expectations of women are sometimes so unfair.

— Clea DuVall

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

— Charles Caleb Colton

We all have to have more rigorous expectations of our kids in America.

— Michelle Rhee