Expectations Quotes · Page 8

Is the 'black designer' label there to warn everyone not to have the same level of expectations for me, or is it…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

— Florence Welch

Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right…

— Freddy Adu

So to some extent he [Barack Obama] is a victim of the expectations and the high hopes that we experienced.

— Michael Fullilove

There is no one with higher expectations of me than myself. I cannot control other's expectations.

— Kasper Schmeichel

Unexpected results & problems are part of life. Never lose hope in any condition, because darkness of night always ends with light…

— Ritu Ghatourey

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

— Jonah Hill

I like to keep my expectations low and my aspirations high in my career and my life. That way I'm pleasantly surprised…

— Jason O'Mara

“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the…

— Joseph Conrad

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to…

— Samuel Butler

I am used to the low expectations people have of me: I have a bubbly personality, I smile a lot; I am…

— Stacey Solomon

For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the…

— David Berlinski

I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience…

— Karen Marie Moning

It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one…

— Marilyn vos Savant

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Keep your motivation high, it will help you overcome difficulties in life. Don't expect people to come and solve your problems. You…

— Chanda Kaushik

We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions…

— Wilma Scott Heide

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

— Dan Savage

Pressure is a combination of expectations, scrutiny and consequences. If the consequences are grave, then you feel more pressure and if you…

— Gianluca Vialli

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be…

— Faye Wattleton

Don't place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.

— Jared Padalecki

Kerala audience is different because their expectations are very high.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's…

— Kristin Cashore

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there…

— Angela Carter