Expectations Quotes

“Peace begins when expectations end.”

— Sri Chinmoy

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

— Amy Tan

Having no expectations is a really good thing.

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

Expectations ruin relationships.

— Anonymous

“To live with hope is to seek heavenly help.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear...

— John Suckling

Any expectation is what pain is.

— Jen Kirkman

We have to learn how to manage expectations.

— Tom Herman

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

— Wes Moore

I'm going to try to live up to what I know the expectations will be for me.

— Annamie Paul

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

— Henry David Thoreau

When you learnt to be content instead of wild expectation, you will have fewer disappointment.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“My expectations are sky low, because I’m standing on a mountaintop.”

— Jarod Kintz

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

— Simone Weil

My favorite definition of fear is: False Expectations Appearing Real

— Jill Bolte Taylor

“Hello smart girl. Would you like to talk to me about Great Expectations?”

— Rainbow Rowell

When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people…

— Verite

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling…

— Winston Churchill

I'm taking each match one at a time, not putting expectations on myself, just getting fired up to compete, and taking each…

— Jennifer Brady

People Say: Never Expect Anything In Return From Anyone But The Truth Is, When We Really LOVE Some One, We Naturally Expect…

— Ritu Ghatourey

What you need to do is to perform well, do your duties but never ever expect anything in return nothing more nothing…

— Anonymous

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little…

— Sam Walton

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

— Earl Nightingale

Just as you need the man in your life to love you unconditionally, even when you’re not particularly lovable, your man needs…

— Shaunti Feldhahn

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

In America sometimes I'll play to a full black audience of young people, they will be really getting into this super-aggressive guitar…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom…

— Jennifer Armentrout

In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us…

— Wes Moore

It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you…

— Jacque Fresco

My father grew up very conservative, and he really had set expectations for what boys and girls were supposed to be like.…

— Nicole Maines

One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of…

— Tariq Ramadan

There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to…

— Harrison Ford

I don't have any expectations about my films. If they're good, they're good - if they're not, they're not. About 10 years…

— Anthony Hopkins

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences;…

— Naomi Weisstein

Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!…

— Laurence Sterne

A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one's own needs (and I fear that most marriages are…

— Larry Crabb

There's very notable dynamics in all of the collaborations I've done. It's hard to say if one is more important than the…

— Steve Vai

It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned…

— Ralph Ellison