Expectations Quotes · Page 46

A lot of people have high expectations. I'm just going to do the best I can.

— Deron Williams

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

— Jeb Bush

“Joy is not about fulfilling expectations, joy is about learning to live beyond expectations.”

— Abhijit Naskar

If you can't hold a promise don't throw a promise.

— Jeneane Oliver

Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.

— Philip Zimbardo

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

— June Jordan

My problem is I have really low expectations but high standards.

— Anonymous

“don’t get distracted by your expectations about the results.”

— Henepola Gunaratana

When you expect so much from Life, you'll get disappointed but when you expect less you'll receive countless surprises.

— Terry Mark

“Since I will never know what the future holds, I choose to live my life expecting great things”

— Meena Sarine

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and…

— Anne Sweeney

We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our…

— Orrin Hatch

I'm always my toughest critic. I'm setting the expectations for myself, and that's enough pressure. I don't need to worry about the…

— Molly Qerim

Ladies, a man is not a Good Man because he always does what what you tell him to do (sorry), he's a…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

“Success never quite meets your highest expectations, and failure is never as devastating as you feared. The truth is, things are rarely…

— Brian Reese

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

— David Foster Wallace

That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is…

— Sallust

Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with…

— Samuel Johnson

We live in a really crazy time when there is information coming at you, and there are so many demands on your…

— Brigid Schulte

“Even the ones who love you most will let you down. They are the ones who will disappoint you more because your…

— Pinkie Numa

We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around…

— R. A. Salvatore

Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and…

— Gustav Heinemann

Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as…

— Akbar Ganji

I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How…

— Rachel Cohn

I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost…

— Tim Soutphommasane

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you…

— Kathleen Hanna

“Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although…

— Stephanie Coontz

The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been…

— Victor Hugo

At this point, we are living one of the greatest experiments in humankind - to create something that has, throughout history, been…

— Esther Perel

“I understand it was Derian who spoiled everything. He purposefully tainted your view of me and forced you to go along with…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I'll just be your brother from now on." he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased,…

— Cassandra Clare

You not only broke my heart, you broke my expectations of how love is suppose to be.

— Rashida Rowe

Gamers love technology, and they have high expectations.

— Lisa Su

Stop focusing on the noise and the expectations of others, and focus on what makes you happy.

— Phoebe Dynevor

The key to happiness is to have low expectations.

— Anonymous

I have high expectations from Babar Azam and Imam-ul Haq.

— Mickey Arthur

Never expect things to happen because it's better to be surprised than to feel disappointed.

— Anonymous

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

— Margaret Trudeau

I have great confidence in Rene and high expectations for our squad to respond.

— Shahid Khan