Expectations Quotes

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

~ Valery Satterwhite

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

~ Robert E. Lee

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

~ Richard Carlson

In a world of increasing uncertainty, expect...

~ Gino Norris

If we were to behave half as well as we believe others ought to behave, we might prove ourselves as grand in character as excuses and justifications prevent us from being.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Problems don’t actually exist. They’re just the hallucinogenic effects of people being weirded out on what they think life is supposed to be.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of one or the other that either a bright outlook or dim expectations becomes your regular illusion.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist.  But they don't.  And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ's apostles, they were destroyed by envy on the battlefront.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran outside to play, then you might be a genius. But you do not and you are not. You're a hole where knowledge goes to sleep.

~ Weike Wang

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

~ N.t. Wright

Patience from a Buddhist perspective is not a wait and see attitude, but rather one of just be there... Patience can also be based on not expecting anything.Think of patience as an act of being open to whatever comes your way. When you begin to solidify expectations, you get frustrated because they are not met in the way you had hoped... With no set idea of how something is supposed to be, it is hard to get stuck on things not happening in the time frame you desired. Instead, you are just being there, open to the possibilities of your life.

~ Lodro Rinzler

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

~ George Eliot

We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.

~ Chris Hodges

Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was not the way final exams were supposed to go.

~ Nnedi Okorafor

Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.

~ Bryant Mcgill

They had been there. I had seen my mother’s anxious face, desperate to catch my eye and give me a warm smile. I had tried to smile back, but I had not known how. That old curse again. How to smile. If I smiled too broadly it might look like triumphalism; if I smiled too weakly it might look like a feeble bid for sympathy. If I smiled somewhere in between it would, I knew, look, as always, like plain smugness. Somehow I managed to bare my teeth in a manner that expressed, I hope, sorrow, gratitude, determination, shame, remorse and resolve.

~ Stephen Fry

May we be free of the tyranny of our expectations of others.

~ Gyomay M. Kubose

Do someone a favour, you make a friend; favour 'em too much, you make an enemy.

~ Huseyn Raza

To Stanley Ager, the gift of human service was no one-way loyalty. He clearly gave his all to the families he served but, though he was almost too polite to state this, his expectation of loyalty in return was implicit.

~ Stanley Ager

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

~ Charles Dickens

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

~ John Steinbeck

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

~ Tsitsi Dangarembga

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

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

~ Norhafsah Hamid

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

~ Shaun Hick

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

~ Chuck Palahniuk

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

The pleasure is there, between your expectations and regrets.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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

~ Shivangi Lavaniya

Never expect anything without being prepared to give.

~ Debasish Mridha

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

~ Debasish Mridha

Progress is a collection of expectations set and met.

~ Ashlecka Aumrivani

Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language.

~ Alan Willett

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

~ John Green

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

~ Alan W. Watts

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

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

~ Lexi Blake

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

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

~ Shannon L. Alder