Our Expectations Quotes

60 quotes by 57 authors

Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements,… — David Richo
Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close. — Marianne Williamson
At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things… — Stephen King
If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations. — John C. Maxwell
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited. — A B Simpson
Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect. — Dan Miller
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
Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel. — Jude Bijou
In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way… — Delia Ephron
The answer to our cry which God gave in Jesus infinitely transcends our expectations, achieving a solidarity which cannot be human alone, but divine. Only… — Pope Benedict XVI
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the… — Thomas Browne
Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny… — Steve Almond
We tend to live up to our expectations. — Earl Nightingale
Other people canâ€™t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others donâ€™t make us impatient. We make ourselves… — Surya Das
We all think weâ€™re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations arenâ€™t met. But sometimes our expectations sell… — Shonda Rhimes
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life — Orhan Pamuk
I donâ€™t know why life isnâ€™t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations,… — Anne Lamott
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth… — Dean Koontz
Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations.… — Wes Moore
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods.… — Erich Segal

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