Expectations Quotes

People are never going to act exactly like we want them to. So if we stop expecting things from others, we’ll find peace in our hearts that will last a lifetime.

~ Ron Baratono

It’s the beating of my heart. The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up my wall. The gentle moonlight slipping through my window and the sound of a lonely car somewhere far away, where I long to be too, I think. It’s the way I thought my restless wandering was over, that I’d found whatever I thought I had found, or wanted, or needed, and I started to collect my belongings. Build a home. Safe behind the comfort of these four walls and a closed door. Because as much as I tried or pretended or imagined myself as a part of all the people out there,I was still the one locking the door every night.Turning off the phone and blowing out the candles so no one knew I was home. ’cause I was never really well around the expectations of my personalityand I wanted to keep to myself. and because I haven’t been very impressed lately. By people, or places.Or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

People don't hurt, But Expectations from people give you sadness.

~ Faraz Ahmed Rizwan

I must not expect everyone to act or think like I do as God has created each of us differently.

~ Norhafsah Hamid

Expectations are at war, if good feeling and discomfort clash. When we are expecting zest and joy, our good karma may be ousted by distress and frustration, if negative downbeat waves are emitted. Just with a feel of realism, without prejudice, should we step into the future. What will be, will be. Only the fortune of war will tell, since life may be war or peace. (Fish for silence.)

~ Erik Pevernagie

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

~ Brandon Sanderson

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the outer perimeter regarding what we can experience and learn. Our inaugurating dreams are unlimited by physical reality and our genetic composition. There will always be an unbridgeable rift between countless combinations of human dreams and the infinity of reality, unless we accept what we are without wishing to be something else.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.

~ J. Courtney Sullivan

Your life is made up of your dreams and your realities, your expectations and your possibilities.

~ Debasish Mridha

Set great expectations for yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

~ Jane Austen

life is full of wonders, but you ca't have rainbows without rain, lightning and thunder

~ O. S. Hickman

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.

~ Grigoris Deoudis

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

~ Criss Jami

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

~ Sylvia Townsend Warner

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.

~ Charlotte Brontë

There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his imagination has foolishly taken of women, is fanning the flames within himself -- and, since the woman knows nothing about it, she is not to blame. For if a man incites himself to drown, and will not restrain himself, it is not the water's fault.

~ John Gower

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.

~ Charlotte Brontë

I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and he was struck again by the religious reverence of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it.' And he understood for the first time the earnestness with which May, who was incapable of tying a ribbon in her hair to charm him, had gone through the solemn rite of selecting and ordering her extensive wardrobe.

~ Edith Wharton

Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be.

~ Brené Brown

You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

~ Jodi Picoult

Always expect that something beautiful and wonderful will happen to fill life with beauty.

~ Debasish Mridha

Standards are not established by your proclamations they are established by your routines.

~ T Jay Taylor

It is much easier to evaluate perfect rather than partial results.

~ Fred Lowe Soper

Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.

~ Bob Anderson

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

~ Milan Kundera

Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.

~ Dan Groat

If the fruit (of your effort) is to your expectations, it is the effect (prarabdha, result) of your merit karma [punya karma], if it is not to your expectation, then it is the effect of your demerit karma [paap karma].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Are you able to remain humble and kind when things do not go the way you want or expect? Be kind when you are in pain; be kind even when your life seems to be falling apart around you. Be humble not only when you succeed but also when you fail. Kindness in word and action, and humble in thought and belief. It is important to not only say and do the ‘right’ thing, it is important to also think and believe it - which is being genuine in nature of peace embodiment.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all that is expected or desired in a woman, she is left with nothing in its absence. It ‘is a most severe trail for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources,’ she argued.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

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

~ Confucius

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...

~ Patrick O'brian

Giving without expectations is the ultimate secret source of abundance.

~ Debasish Mridha

Positive expectations create a positive life.

~ Debasish Mridha

How much you can love others without expectations will define who you are.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life will fulfill your expectations.

~ Debasish Mridha

You will get what you want, but you have to expect it with your open heart.

~ Debasish Mridha