Expectations Quotes · Page 42

Our expectations of greatness and the American spirit are being systematically dismantled.

— Will Cain

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

— John C. Maxwell

When it comes to batting, I have a lot of expectations from myself.

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.

— Chrissie Hynde

I'm very low maintenance. I keep low expectations of others and high expectations of myself.

— Anonymous

Its sad that people have low expectations of me, you do not know of what I'm capable of.

— Anonymous

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

— Elon Musk

“Result won’t come if we don’t provide the reason for it to come.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Bruce Lee once said, Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to…

— Melchor Lim

We're all diminished and restricted by sweeping statements defining boy and girl, our expectations and disappointments with ourselves, the way we look,…

— Sara Pascoe

Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful.

— Ken Liu

The whole thing about 'What It's Like' was an accident. There were no expectations, and I had nothing to lose.

— Everlast

There are “bus bench” workouts and “park bench” workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your…

— Dan John

When I came from Europe, I was told that Americans don't care about soccer and this and that. But the way people…

— Freddie Ljungberg

Youre full of great expectations. Your own, and those imposed. Small failures and half successes. The epitome of mediocrity composed

— Aly Johnson

Put the power of your expectations to work ina positive and enriching way. Tell your life how you want it to be…

— Senoraroy

On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

'Drag Race' has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a…

— Jenna Wortham

Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with…

— Leo Tolstoy

Leaders who lead purposeful organizations are those who put people first. No, it's not a cliché when they actually do it. It…

— John Baldoni

If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my…

— Anais Nin

In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level…

— Paul Brand

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help…

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in…

— Wole Soyinka

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being…

— Shane Claiborne

Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater…

— Mary Pipher

It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of…

— Samuel Johnson

If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens,…

— Edward S. Herman

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected —…

— Marilynne Robinson

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'…

— Alice Miller

Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does…

— Henry David Thoreau

I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation.

— Jack Tretton

Why does everyone seem to think it's down to me to do something about it?

— Merlin

There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations.

— Brendon Urie

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

— Lenny Wilkens

Ignoring expectations makes you look at the world in a fresh way.

— K. K. Barrett

As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.

— Dan Gilbert

So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

— Cathy Guisewite