Expectations Quotes · Page 14

My expectations for myself were really high.

— Shaquem Griffin

I don't live to please you.

— Anonymous

No more expectations, whatever happens, happens

— Anonymous

“Only expectation has value as currency,”

— Brandon Sanderson

Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling.

— Vern Law

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

— Judith Rodin

Patience is the absence of expectation.

— Shinichi Suzuki

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

— Ambrose Bierce

Please reduce the expectation in your tone when asking me how my day is going.

— Dov Davidoff

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

— Norton Juster

“life's greatest disappointments come from the highest expectations.”

— Anita Papas

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

— Ann Brashares

We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance.

— Matt Redman

We spend too much time wondering why we're not good enough.

— Anonymous

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

— Alex Kapranos

“There y’all go again,” Stephanie said. “Low expectations.” Cyd”

— Kim Cash Tate

Mum was on benefits for a few years. Then I failed the 11-plus and I went to the secondary modern. And that…

— Emily Thornberry

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you’re going. Of course, some people never go…

— Norton Juster

If you want to see God restore whats been stolen from you, get up each morning expecting good things to happen.

— Anonymous

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

— Robert Greene

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.

— Richard Cohen

It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come…

— Christopher Miller

I have to believe in myself, set goals for myself, set expectations for myself, and continue to work for those goals every…

— Saquon Barkley

Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond…

— Thomas Malthus

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you…

— Bruce Barton

I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do…

— Q-Tip

One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to…

— Jeff Bridges

I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, "Oh, we're…

— Barack Obama

Telling someone you love them doesn't necessarily mean you can expect an I LOVE YOU TOO! in return sometimes you just have…

— Anonymous

CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those…

— Marilyn Tavenner

One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does…

— Joseph E. LeDoux

[Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend…

— Neal Stephenson

Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return…

— Dalai Lama

I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party…

— Maile Meloy

Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold…

— Caroline Myss

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its…

— Walter Russell

“We're constantly judging and grading other parents, just to make sure that they aren't any better than us. I'm as guilty as…

— Drew Magary

“What's the first sign of a lurking, hidden expectation you didn't know you had? Pain! People don't do what we want, things…

— Guy Finley