Expectations Quotes
Ram Mohan
Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.
3449Jourdane Erasquin
I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.
2980 Bill Watterson
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.
1663 Brian Tracy
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
2887 Jourdane Erasquin
If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.
4754 C. JoyBell C.
I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.
1212 Brenda Ueland
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.
1883 A.J. Darkholme
If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.
1650 Richard Marius
We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.
2967 Jourdane Erasquin
There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.
1370 Lev Grossman
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.
4773 Isabella Poretsis
Never expect to be given anything, other than love, for free in your life because if you do you will fail.
2172 Amit Kalantri
I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.
3275 Anthony Liccione
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
4050 Don Roff
Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
4065 Sartika Kurniali
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.
3430 Charlotte Eriksson
I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.
2842 Lev Grossman
That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.
1439 Patricia McCormick
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
3869 Stephen Hawking
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]
3183 Vera Nazarian
Would you like to know your future?
If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.
So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence - a surprise.
1065 Angel Wagenstein
The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.
1723 Alexandra Katehakis
Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex and moments when our sexuality confounds, pains, or infuriates us, will we be liberated to enjoy it in a way that's true to ourselves.
3600 Fulton J. Sheen
It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.
1683 Bruce Lee
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
3581 Jodi Picoult
There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
1378 Rasheed Ogunlaru
Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.
1286 Vijay Dhameliya
Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness
3838 Alan Bennett
One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
2188 Alexander Pope
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
3104 Jane Austen
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
3825 Abhijeet Sawant
When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U...!!!
2773 Melissa Marr
It's okay. You're going to save me, Miss Maylene." The girl gave her a genuine look of happiness. "I know it. I knew if I found you everything would be okay.
1200 Alice Hoffman
He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs
4291 Dana Arcuri
Although we may encounter dark seasons, when we're filled with joy we'll have confident expectations that the sun will soon return and dark clouds will pass.
2581 Tayeb Salih
Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...
2808 M.E. Thomas
When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.
3187 Mark W. Boyer
If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.
3265 Donald Miller
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
3913 Kemi Sogunle
You can't give love when you haven't experienced love.
3164 Turcois Ominek
Don’t assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.
3172 Agnostic Zetetic
No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.
2432 Agnostic Zetetic
Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.
4850 David Mitchell
Men marry women hoping they'll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.
3361 Rachel Carson
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.
4619 Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.
4165 Saji Ijiyemi
If you want to be outstanding, stop meeting expectations, start exceeding them
4276 Dee Dee Artner
Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.
1822 Sanhita Baruah
He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.
Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn't want to be - a disappointment.
3485 Sharon Creech
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
3709 Julie Murphy
As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.
3213 Anna R.
We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection
3131 Milan Kundera
Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved
1911 Holly Sprink
We can make our own plans and judge them by our narrow expectations, or we can experience life as the boundless reality of the One who created it.
3274 Jacob M. Appel
I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....
2820 C.S. Lewis
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
1846 Jourdane Erasquin
What they have been teaching us is wrong. Yes, we do have control over our choices. Why? Because life gave us the freedom to choose. The only downside to this freedom are the insatiable consequences we shall have to face because of the choices we learned to embrace.
2916 Husam Wafaei
There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth.
1447 Abhinav Sakalle
A man does not care if somebody loves him or not. All he wants is to be understood.
4462 Callie Hunter
Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake
1026 Steven Redhead
Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.
1060 Jerril Thomas Abraham
Unexplained isn't a word it's a statement of what it meant.And i guess in the real world that definition doesn't exists in a conceptual way.
1362 Brandon Sanderson
Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.
1854 Gary Hopkins
Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.
3106 Amit Kalantri
People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.
2005 Faisal Khosa
History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them.
4409 Charlotte Brontë
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil - improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.
1317 Zora Neale Hurston
Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonely anymore.
3605 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.
3358 Mehek Bassi
Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain
You never know when it will end, don’t let a moment pass in vain…
In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,
I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained…
2980 Brandon Sanderson
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
2054 Sujit Lalwani
At times what you expect and what happens don’t match.
The faster you accept and adapt to what happened & work towards creating what you believed, that what you expected gets created in a whole new way..!
3040 Dejan Stojanovic
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
3031 Larissa Qat
La vie est belle .....La vie est loca!
Sometimes up...Other times down
Big smiles....Waterfalls
Make the best of it...As no one knows
It's up to you how it goes
4982 Dan Sofer
Nothing in life or love slipped easily into the tidy little box of his expectations.
4128 Hera Septyadita
Take that chance :
even though this is hard, you'll get it in a peace.
Leave that chance :
i know it's easy, but you will always walk in regret
2879 Lailah Gifty Akita
You get what you expect in life.
Expect great things in life.
Live your best life.
1299 Abby Rosmarin
Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it’s better. Sometimes it’s worse. And sometimes it’s just different. It’s not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to turn out. Just go with the flow and keep your eyes and ears peeled.
1783 Shivam Singh
Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life..
3430 Grigoris Deoudis
Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled, just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is, to become every path, at any given moment.
3890 Linda Deir
Free yourself from the expectations of having to be right with the wrong information.
4583 Sol Luckman
I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.
4162 Diane Meier
Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.
3286 A. Saleh
When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.
3119 Chris Hodges
We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.
3636 James Joyce
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.
1972 Ryan Lilly
My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect.
1460 Gino Norris
In a world of increasing uncertainty, expect...
2790 David Brooks
People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.
2884 Huseyn Raza
Do someone a favour, you make a friend; favour 'em too much, you make an enemy.
3069 Colson Whitehead
Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.
3727 Amy Chua
I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but thrive.
1002 Cooper Davis
Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't add up nearly so well, that I'm just a shadowed reflection of them. Now that question hounds me a lot more often than I like to admit.
4987 Anthony Liccione
It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.
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