Expectations Quotes · Page 22

“Desire great things in life. Expect great things in life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— Wes Moore

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

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

— Annamie Paul

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

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

— George Eliot

Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the…

— Anonymous

You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.

— Heidi Roizen

When you can agree on one thing, you should have no expectation that suddenly a person is converted to your way of…

— Samantha Bee

Perfection expectations is inevitably, it leads to disappointment. More realistic goal is for husbands and wives to work, learn and grow together.

— Kemmy Nola

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

— Florence Nightingale

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden…

— Christian Bale

“Tell yourself often: I am going to tackle my aspirations head on with the passion and dedication necessary to exceed even my…

— Lorii Myers

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is…

— Marilu Henner

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time…

— Samuel Johnson

You will never be happy if you continue to search for some1 to make u happy. for a moment they may lie…

— Hemansmarty

I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add…

— H. L. Mencken

The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations,…

— Rajneesh

I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there…

— Ilona Andrews

It's not only 'Aashiqui.' In the case of any cult film which has a sequel or a remake, it is very difficult…

— Rahul Roy

“Though most spiritual seekers start their search afraid of disappointment, Jesus says that he will always be infinitely more than anyone is…

— Timothy J. Keller

We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention…

— Erich Segal

It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and…

— Samuel Johnson

I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the…

— Michelle Rhee

“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

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

I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or…

— Steve Saint

“A Lady's Guide to Beauty and Etiquette was starting to feel less like her saving grace and more like a nuisance. A…

— Adalyn Grace

We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

— Simone Weil

Things will happen in life that you can't stop. But, that's no reason to shut out the world.

— Pete Sims

We're very independent women with our own ideas and our own career expectations.

— Bridget Marquardt

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, expect nothing, and you'll never get hurt.

— Anonymous

I don't take pressure or keep expectations because then it becomes difficult to concentrate.

— Gautam Rode

Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

— Walter Becker