Expectations Quotes

Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing.

~ Debasish Mridha

True happiness can only be found when you stop worrying about yourself and try to look out for those around you.Helping people can give your life meaning and joy. Don't expect anything in return spread happiness and get peace, there is nothing more valuable than peace..

~ Aribazafar

No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself.

~ Siri Hustvedt

An imaginary friend once asked me why Americans can't stand Russia. The answer was cold, deadly, silent, and, well expected. It’s because in Soviet Russia nothing happens anymore, because it doesn’t exist anymore. And Americans are all about happenings. If there isn’t one – they don’t go where it isn’t, because there isn’t anything to happen to them there.

~ Will Advise

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.

~ William Hurrell Mallock

We were all made with the potential to be the people we are supposed to be. We all have souls and we all have minds and we all have wills. Many people look at the world and see a beautiful place full of potential and love and beauty those are the people you want as friends. But many people look at the world and see a place that hurts, that causes pain, that destroys and corrupts. Those are the people you don't want to have as friends, for those are the people who will pull you down with them, who will fill your mind with similar thoughts, who will turn you from a positive person to a negative person. God made us all with the potential to be positive people, contributing to the growth of this world, but many people choose to be negative, diminishing the light of those who wish to do good.' 'Why?' Walker asked. 'Because, my friend, it's easier. It's unfortunate, but it's true. It's much easier for a person to think that the world will not let him advance, because then that person won't have many expectations of himself, and it's easier to fulfill low expectations.

~ Tom Walsh

I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.

~ Rachel Cohn

Every time you invite a candidate to interview, you should expect to be interviewed, too.

~ Stacy Feiner

Your success lies in your own hands. You must therefore not wait for the grass to become greener by magic. You have the hands to irrigate your own territory by doing what is expected of you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.

~ Santosh Kalwar

The only things that I expect are miracles.

~ Greg Dutilly

Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Jesus' love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.

~ Todd Stocker

With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.

~ Sharon Salzberg

To expect more, be more.

~ Debasish Mridha

Expect success, abundance, and happiness. You will attract only that which you expect.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you.

~ Debasish Mridha

Giving without expectation is the beauty of humanity and its foundation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Expect to wonder to find wonder.

~ Debasish Mridha

Do--what should be done--without expecting anything in return.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. 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 popular 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

This doesn't mean that we stop helping people set goals or that we stop expecting people to grow and change. It means that we stop respecting and evaluating people based on what we think they should accomplish, and start respecting them for who they are and holding them accountable for what they're actually doing. It means that we stop loving people for who they could be and start loving them for who they are. It means that sometimes when we're beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, Man, I'm doing the very best I can right now.

~ Brené Brown

I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what's in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be brave. We learn to be wise. We struggle to know ourselves and voice what we want.

~ Leigh Bardugo

In order to grow sometimes we must cease striving to meet other people’s expectations and begin establishing new goals that develop our personal potential. If we live a life to satisfy all the direct or implicit anticipations of other people, we end up living a life full of regret because we failed to develop into a complete manifestation of our being.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

In life, you often get what you expect.

~ Michael Hyatt

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.

~ Habeeb Akande

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.

~ Lorii Myers

An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to deal with the fragmentation of our self and assess the deconstruction of our identity, a corny incident could easily capsize our being. A misinterpretation of facts and expectations may perturb our awareness and unsettle our perception. When “I” and “me” don’t get along very well, the road to oneness may be very often bumpy. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

You mustn't force images on things.Only gods were what you should expect perfection from.You mustn't demand an ideal from anyone.That is weakness. It is an evil that must be hated. It is negligence that must be punished. It spoils not only yourself, but those around you.You are allowed to be disappointed with only yourself. You should hurt only yourself. Hate yourself for not following your ideal.The only one you must not forgive is yourself.

~ Wataru Watari

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

~ Emma Watson

Don't expect anything except yourself.

~ Goitsemang Mvula

when you expect something from your self and your own self disappoints you.... this is what i call a real disappointment . The worst disappointments comes from in-within.

~ Sameh Elsayed

If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

~ Anthony Liccione

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

~ Henry James

We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

~ Erving Polster

It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

~ Victoria Moran

You'll have less heartaches and disappointments if you stop seeking from others the things ONLY God and you can give yourself!

~ Yvonne Pierre

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m just going, ‘Any moment, someone’s going to find out I’m a total fraud, and that I don’t deserve any of what I’ve achieved.’ I can’t possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone’s expectations of me are.

~ Emma Watson