Never raise expectations in others that you cannot…

Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.

— Mary Louisa Molesworth

It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.

— Steve Case

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

— Frederick Lenz

“You have spent your life trying to live up to everyones expectations, when you realize the only expectations you can't live up to is…

— Butch Carroll

Sometimes you have great expectations, but then we realize that the dream can not be realized...

— Anonymous

Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for…

— Libba Bray

To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

— Robin Crow

He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you…

— Cinda Williams Chima

You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard…

— Mark Twight

“When you raise your expectations of yourself, you create a space to grow into.”

— Laurence G. Boldt

Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

— Paula Scher

“Raise your expectations. If he thinks you’re worth it he’ll rise to the occasion.”

— Jenna Bayley-Burke

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame,…

— Samuel Johnson

“If you don't get disappointed when you raise your expectations; you don't get appointments from where your mind is not!”

— Bayode Ojo

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

— Norm MacDonald