Expectations Quotes

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

They had been there. I had seen my mother’s anxious face, desperate to catch my eye and give me a wa...

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", Decemb...

When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this th...

The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mo...

All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is h...

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense...

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, nea...

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

She’d struck Esk once before – the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough...

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For t...

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much ...

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long tim...

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for...

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and di...

Indeed, she had the whole of the other sex under her protection; for reasons she could not explain, ...

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that liter...

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, an...

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these...

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff...

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie ...

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at ...

Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inev...

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects ...

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectation...

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects ...

I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleas...

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owe...

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of los...

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as fut...

[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy...

It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.

Only expectation has value as currency,

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yoursel...

It is easy to see how quickly expectations become layered, competitive and conflicting. This is how ...

Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community e...

Folks write down the name of someone who fills them with frustration, disappointment, and/or resentm...

This doesn't mean that we stop helping people set goals or that we stop expecting people to grow and...

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to min...

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really l...

What you have made me see,' answered the Lady, 'is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Y...

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they tha...

And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is n...

Every time they saw him, they recognized him and knew him and expected things of him. And every time...

On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into ...

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of t...

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...

It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for the...

You need to claim the driver's seat," Cash said. "Never take a backseat in your own life! You gotta ...

People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first s...

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.

When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous...

People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.

Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the ...

One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're play...

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little ...

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas mi...

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not...

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That d...

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts ...

For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

What do you expect—not indifference or ingratitude?’ (-Miss Benson) ‘It is better not to expect or c...

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far moreconfidence in what God can do for...

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m ...

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

One always expects something else.

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why...