Never idealize others. They will never live up to your…

Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.

— Jeremy Lin

“we don’t have to live up to the expectations of others.”

— Melissa Foster

I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not…

— Anonymous

You can never live up to everyone's expectations, but you can live up to your own.

— Varsha Sharma

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse,…

— Ann Richards

Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations.

— Matthew Hayden

“All other things being equal, you will generally live up or down to expectations.”

— Mark Dilworth

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't…

— Tracy Chapman

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition,…

— Nancy Gibbs

It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.

— Nicholas Sparks

It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind of permission…

— Lynn Coady

What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a…

— Charlotte Le Bon

It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know.

— Craig Bruce