Expectations Quotes - Page 9

...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”...

L.M. Montgomery

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

Lionel Shriver

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

L.M. Montgomery

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

Guy Finley

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.

Tonya Hurley

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

J.K. Rowling

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.

Stephen King

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

Douglas Adams

Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.

Ronnie Oldham

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

Marilynne Robinson

What's the first sign of a lurking, hidden expectation you didn't know you had? Pain! People don't do what we want, things don't happen quickly enough, the weather doesn't cooperate, our bodies don't cooperate. Why are these moments so painful? Because our minds are focused on a static, unchanging, me-centric picture while the dynamic unfolding of a broader life continues around us. There is nothing wrong with expectations per se, as it's appropriate to set goals and work, properly, towards their fruition. But the instant we feel pain over life not going "my way," our expectations have clearly taken an improper turn. Any moment you feel resistance or pain, look for -- and then let go of -- the hidden expectation. Practice giving yourself over to what "you" don't want. Let the line at the store be long. Let the other person interrupt you. Let the nervousness make you shake. Be where your body is, not where your mind is trying to take you.

Guy Finley

Life was easier when you stopped caring, when you stopped expecting things to get better.

Cora Carmack

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

Norton Juster

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Samuel Johnson

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

Sylvia Plath

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

Jodi Picoult

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

Roberto Bolaño

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

Jeff Kinney

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Lisa Kleypas

Supplication is to implore God for mercy and compassion, to have pity upon you or to grant you the request given and expect that He will do it.

Robin Bertram

I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curfew: my feet were hurting, my hair was slipping free from its pins, and my makeup was getting all smudged from sweat. I was unbelievably tired, undeniably depressed, and I just wanted charming.

J.M. Richards

a lot of happiness lead a person to disappointments.

AribaZafar

I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when I complete them, I give myself a piece of candy, a glass of tea and some free time to enjoy- that is how I honor my hardworking and appreciate my struggles.

M.F. Moonzajer

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.

T.F. Hodge

An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime.

Unarine Ramaru

I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.

Richard Paul Evans

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

Anthony Liccione

A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

People should not expect to eat if they did not work.

Sunday Adelaja

People should not expect to reap if they have not sown.

Sunday Adelaja

People who sit and expects miracles are wicked.

Sunday Adelaja

When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.

Sunday Adelaja

addiction and expectation for the attraction = social media

Vaishal sheth

Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.

Shannon L. Alder

You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect a new result.

Sunday Adelaja

Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?

Shannon L. Alder

Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed.

V.C. Andrews

Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.

Steve Goodier

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

Alexandre Dumas

No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.

Agnostic Zetetic

Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.

Terry Tempest Williams

I do not allow anybody to hurt me without my permission, because, I believe in no expectations, no disappointments, no hurting myself, just being me and my imaginative self. Trust me because, when I have expectations, I am setting myself up for disappointment.

Muhammad Usman Aman

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she was soft.

Carson McCullers

[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.

Hugh L. Dryden

That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.

Shannon L. Alder

When I tried to meet some impossible standard for motherhood, tried to earn my way to a weird sort of Proverbs 31 Woman Club, I collapsed in exhaustion and simmering anger, sadness, and failure. This was not life in the Vine, this exhausting job description; this was not the Kingdom of God, let alone a redeemed woman living full. This was the shell of someone trying to measure up, trying to earn through her mothering what God had already freely given. This was someone feeling the weight of unmet expectations from the Church and her own self and the world all at once.

Sarah Bessey

Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.

Lexi Blake

When i get into the best college in America, he is cutting radishes for dinner. I have just found out ten minutes ago. I am elated. He puts down the knife to shake my hand and then goes back to cutting radishes.

Weike Wang

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Alan W. Watts

Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.

John Green

Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language.

Alan Willett

Progress is a collection of expectations set and met.

Ashlecka Aumrivani

Don't expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people.

Debasish Mridha

Never expect anything without being prepared to give.

Debasish Mridha

Expectations is the mother of all negative energies within in you...

shivangi lavaniya

And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.

James Joyce

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

Chuck Palahniuk

I am full of mistakes and imperfections and therefore I am real ...

Shaun Hick

Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations.

Norhafsah Hamid

This is what storytelling gets you. You make things up that aren't real, and then get upset when they don't turn out as expected.

Gregg Korrol

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