Expectations Quotes

Every time you give away love without any expectations, you become richer.

~ Debasish Mridha

When Sweetu wasn’t being reduced to merely existing as a bride, as a piece of meat to be handled and prodded, to have decorative contraptions stuck into her skull, her interests were otherwise unexpressed. She rarely complained, hardly asked for anything, and maybe that’s because Indian girls grow up going to weddings and we watch the procedure and we know our roles: be demure, don’t complain, cry but don’t scream, get tea for anyone older than you, and calmly meet expectations.

~ Scaachi Koul

People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words.

~ Sanhita Baruah

Only expectation has value as currency

~ Brandon Sanderson

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

~ Criss Jami

What you want may not come in the form you expected. It may be right under your nose at this moment.

~ Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

When our expectations differ from better, we think bitter, but that is not better! Stay better, think positive, no matter what; there is always a better lesson to learn!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.

~ Mark W. Boyer

Hope is an enthusiastic assurance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Anticipate the miraculous splendour of everyday wonder.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let today mark a new beginning for you. Give yourself permission to say NO without feeling guilty, mean, or selfish. Anybody who gets upset and/or expects you to say YES all of the time clearly doesn’t have your best interest at heart. Always remember: You have a right to say NO without having to explain yourself. Be at peace with your decisions.

~ Stephanie Lahart

The greatest weapon anyone can use against us is our own mind. By preying upon the doubts and uncertainities that already lurk there. Are we true to ourselves or do we live to the expectations of others? And if we are open and honest, can we ever truly be loved? Can we find the courage to release our deepest secrets? Or in the end are we all unknowable even to ourselves.

~ Emily Thorne

If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a world of withering expectations, we have to rewrite the script of our life. (Into a new life)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Your attitudes, action, reactions and expectations are harboured in the power of your thoughts. Think positively and you will smile at the harvest time.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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.

~ 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.

~ Lev Grossman

When perception, thoughtfulness and understanding do meet, we can fashion a range of viable expectations and craft a world of togetherness. (Morning after)

~ Erik Pevernagie

The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame on the darkness in broad daylight.

~ Bikash Chaurasiya

When questioning ourselves, we must identify, where we are heading to. Do we prefer our life to remain untitled. Will we stand bare and naked without dressing any expectations or do we decide to interact with the world around. Will we play a part on the stage of life or do we choose to remain simply a chapter without heading, an episode without caption, an untitled interval. (Life untitled )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Come to me.Why must you ruin this moment?You are burdened with thought.Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future.You are burdened with your self.Cast these aside by laughing at yourself.And love,for what more is there than to love me?Take me nowand let it be heaven for us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I never expected you to understand, but I did expect you to be there.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Start with a cry, end with a smile.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations.

~ Unarine Ramaru

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.

~ C.s. Lewis

Life is all about Expectations verses Reality, be in reality.

~ Bharath Mamidoju

Every encounter with the external world presents a conflict with a person’s cherished inner world. How we resolve these ongoing boarder conflicts between reality and ideas results in tectonic shifts in our mental makeup, which influx we incorporate by responding to the never-ending chaos of a worldly life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people feel illusive vibrating alerts and hear phantom phone rings, since absence of ringing generates scaring emptiness and destroys their self-esteem. (Kein Schwein ruft mich an )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Expectations are nothing more than the rules we set, in order to maintain our ego and self esteem. What we seek from others is often that fulfillment of what we believe we require for happiness. However, many of us will raise the requirements so high that we can't even reach them or better yet, realize that we could find that expectation met by our own introspection and action.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

~ Richard Adams

..if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was ahurricane.

~ John Green

Expectations have no effect on the harvest.

~ Marty Rubin

Expectations create and shape reality.

~ Debasish Mridha

Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said thought or conception as something fated, inevitable, and foreordained—something bound to happen. Whether by this there is connoted something in the nature of a combination of presentiments, or a great effort of will, or a self-annulment of one's true expectations, and so on, I do not know

~ ;Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Who gets to be the judge of reality? If it was deeply felt, believed, spoken about often or altered your life course, then it was real enough. Faith doesn't get the luxury of all those things one hundred percent of the time, but we call that normal behavior based on a gut feeling.” I said. I looked at his wife and she busted out laughing. Her husband was trying to catch invisible butterflies above his head—dementia. My patients teach me the most sobering of truths: Why wreck his smile. If I could see them, I would want to catch them too.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth.

~ Husam Wafaei

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.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

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.

~ Dee Dee Artner

Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

~ Callie Hunter