Expectations Quotes · Page 8

Frustration is a function of our expectations.

— Stephen Covey

Hopes are based on faith, expectations, actions

— Tasneem Hameed

“night. No expectations. No promises.”

— Pam Godwin

“We're sixteen. People expect us to fuck up.”

— Brandy Colbert

I quite like confounding people's expectations.

— Bill Bailey

I don't have any expectations of anything.

— Peter Capaldi

HOPE - Have Only Positive Expectations.

— Alexia

Expectations just lead to disappointments

— Anonymous

Release the need to measure upto the expectations of others.

— Senoraroy

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

— William Hazlitt

When expectations are too high, sometimes the disappointment is out of proportion.

— Deco

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

— Anonymous

“Raise your expectations. If he thinks you’re worth it he’ll rise to the occasion.”

— Jenna Bayley-Burke

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

— Linda Tripp

The more you expect,the harder you slapped your face to deal the your own disappointments.

— Louaiq8

“How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!”

— Alexandre Dumas

“Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was…

— Nnedi Okorafor

There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can…

— Chris Witty

I had little or no expectations coming in. I was thrilled when I was drafted in the first round because that meant…

— John Stockton

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

— Alastair Reynolds

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no…

— Samuel Johnson

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

— Dan Millman

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

— Erich Fromm

There's so much judgment geared toward young girls. People just expect so much from girls. Even physically and aesthetically, people expect us…

— Bibi Bourelly

Doing a film with somebody who's from a different country or culture than you is very fulfilling because they bring with them…

— Ryan Eggold

A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of…

— Roz Savage

I have been disappointed in all my expectations of Australia, except as to its wickedness; for it is far more wicked than…

— Henry Parkes

I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given…

— Wendell Berry

Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let…

— Genghis Khan

Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about…

— Felix Dennis

When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. So when 'Weeds' took off, I…

— Kevin Nealon

It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly…

— Timothy Keller

You can become so manipulated and controlled by what you think other people expect you to do that you literally live under…

— Joyce Meyer

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already…

— Roger Ebert

“We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into…

— Chogyam Trungpa

If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has…

— Craig Groeschel

“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I…

— John Gower

There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope,…

— Taylor Caldwell

“I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and…

— Edith Wharton