Expectations Quotes

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People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack… — John C. Maxwell
The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and themselves. If she… — Thomas S. Monson
Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from… — Michael Medved
All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation. — Pat McBride
Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content.… — Dorothy Day
I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm,… — Meredith Hall
When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant… — Marilynne Robinson
Just as you need the man in your life to love you unconditionally, even when youâ€™re not particularly lovable, your man needs you to demonstrate… — Shaunti Feldhahn
Weâ€™ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesnâ€™t. â€¦ I want to live in a world where we donâ€™t… — Stella Young
You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. — Denis Johnson
What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when… — Henry David Thoreau
The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself… — Mark Victor Hansen
You may have what it takes to be successful, but if you lose yourself in someone else's priorities or societal expectations, you will be judged… — Lois P Frankel
I found that to build mental toughness, you need to inconvenience yourself. The early morning runs, if you hate early mornings. The late night runs,… — Chael Sonnen
The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem. — Curtis Jackson
The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days. — Ray Wylie Hubbard
The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up. — Anuj
Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing… — Epicurus
Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual… — Sam Keen

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