Expectations Quotes - Page 5

If you expect perfection from other people your whole life is a series of disappointments grumbling and complaints. If on the contrary you pitch your expectations low taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.
Bruce Barton
A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Margaret Deland
Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.
George Eliot
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
L.M. Montgomery
You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt
He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.
Italian proverb
Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.
Elizabeth Bowen
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.
Marcelene Cox
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
George Santayana
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor
Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.
Madeleine L'Engle
No one from the beginning of time has had security.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one is happy all his life long.
Euripides
Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.
Lionel Suggs
We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.
Bernie Glassman
Take a moment and think of something small but significant that you've wanted for decades. Dream about it. Wish for it. Let the dreaming and wishing sink deeply into your being. Add some memories of disappointment just for a little flavor. At some point, over time, a wish can become too important, can become much bigger as a dream than it ever had a right to be.
Virginia M. Sanders
She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.
Laura Jacobs
All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here that the competition is the greatest, the expectations most elevated. If the boy would be happier as a telephone linesman or a forest ranger, he is in a hopeless bind. His goals have been set for him by his milieu, and he cannot be his own man; so he simply refuses to play the game. He "does not try.
Sydney J. Harris
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
V.S. Naipaul
Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.
Steven Redhead
I think it’s weird how vanilla people just jump into a bed and fuck and don’t ever relish the moment, don’t talk to each other about what works and what doesn’t. So many people just expect sex to happen, but really great sex takes work, like everything in life. You have to talk to your partner.
Lexi Blake
Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did--a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down?
Christie Craig
I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.''If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.
Anne Brontë
...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it
Charles Dickens
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark Twain
Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.
Shannon L. Alder
none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.
Victor L. Wooten
It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.
Sartika Kurniali
Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.
Michael Gruber
Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.
Idries Shah
A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.
Anthony Liccione
Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.
Ellen Airgood
It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture.Each evening I retreat from it, and I go straight to the Gospels.It's not out of duty that I read about Jesus; it's a respite.
Brant Hansen
To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.
Pat Riley
My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.
Evelyn Waugh
Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected
Pen
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 the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.
Thomas Hardy
Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don't forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free from an unhealthy attachment to our expectations.
Steve Maraboli
One of the reasons the team on NCIS works so well-is that they live by their leader's rules-which are not a secret .What are your rules/standards? Do the people in your life know what they are? Do you hold grudges/resentments when they don't measure up? Do you pretend that everything is fine-when it's not-and close up a little every day?And most importantly-When was the last time YOU reviewed/upgraded your standards/expectations rules-and took a look at the impact around you/checked in?(Hint-most people live from rules/standards/expectations created from reactions/perceptions formed around the age of six)Might be time for a review/upgrade........
Dave Rudbarg
I want everyone to stop telling me to lower my expectations.
Tracy Guzeman
Setting proper expectations from the moment you meet a potential client will reduce stress and enable all parties to work together, rather than struggling contentiously through the process.
Michelle Moore
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Love is a choice. That's why love it's one of gods commandments. People love because they trust. People trust because of faith. Love does have expectations. What we expect by love is eternity. We expect eternity because love is a choice, and you can choose to have it forever. The expectation of having love is a purpose to live, and a purpose to die. With out expectations, why would you love. The natural gift of love it's a purpose to live and happiness. That's why love it's worth dying for. With god or with out god in the picture, that's why love it's worth dying for.
Abraham Ruiz
People aren't always who they seem, Detective. Am I anything like you thought?""No," I admitted. You're a million times better than I could have imagined.
Dani Alexander
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides
People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.
Charmian Hussey
People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.
Travis Luedke
When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver’s seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect great outcomes. Expect that you are the best candidate and that you will achieve your goals.
Lorii Myers
Tell yourself often: I am going to tackle my aspirations head on with the passion and dedication necessary to exceed even my expectations.
Lorii Myers
Expectations are made to be exceeded!
Lorii Myers
Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.
Jim Butcher
Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective
Dean Cavanagh
I notice you didn’t include a blade with your new attire,” Royce said. “Not even a little jeweled dagger.”“Lords no.” Albert looked appalled. “I don’t fight.”“I thought all nobles learned sword fighting.” Royce looked to Hadrian.“I thought so too.”“Nobles with competent fathers perhaps. I spent my formative years at my aunt’s at Huffington Manor. She held a daily salon, where a dozen noble ladies came to discuss all manner of philosophical topics, like how much they hated their husbands. I’ve never actually held a sword, but I can tie a mean corset and apply face paint like a gold-coin whore.
Michael J. Sullivan
It’s scary when it’s real. When it’s not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.
Jenny Han
But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;
Marcel Proust
These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up to confront him with all its essential sloppiness, irrationality, and bad business sense.
T.C. Boyle

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