So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality. — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else. — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up. — Lenny Wilkens Copy Share Image
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do. — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
I know everyone wants to see India winning on home soil, be it in hockey or cricket. But sometimes with expectations come… — Sandeep Singh Copy Share Image
Every Person you meet, every single one is looking for their story. There are no exceptions. You become part of it by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Find someone who openly communicates their feelings. Someone who realizes that youre not perfect and never expects you to be. — Brigitte Nicole Copy Share Image
Living up to people's expectations is one thing but it was even harder to live up to my own expectations. — Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden Copy Share Image
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Stop getting attached to people so fast, because attachments lead to expectations and expectations lead to disappointments. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me. — India.Arie Copy Share Image
Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day,… — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Copy Share Image
I never aspire to be objective because I don't believe in objectivity. It's important to be truthful, and it's important to make… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are… — Delia Ephron Copy Share Image
If you come from a family like Gandhi family, people have high expectations. He needed to perform. I wish Rahul could have… — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I decided to practice alone because it was a challenge for me to see how much I love tennis. And making sure… — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
“All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here that the competition is the greatest,… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
There's a lot of expectation in the Middle East that post-Obama there will be a sort of tougher U.S. line on Assad,… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations. — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation. — Jack Tretton Copy Share Image
The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image