Expectations Quotes

[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.

~ Hugh L. Dryden

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she was soft.

~ Carson Mccullers

I do not allow anybody to hurt me without my permission, because, I believe in no expectations, no disappointments, no hurting myself, just being me and my imaginative self. Trust me because, when I have expectations, I am setting myself up for disappointment.

~ Muhammad Usman Aman

Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

~ Alexandre Dumas

Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.

~ Steve Goodier

Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed.

~ V.c. Andrews

Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?

~ Shannon L. Alder

You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect a new result.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of potential doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.

~ Shannon L. Alder

People who sit and expects miracles are wicked.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.

~ Sunday Adelaja

People should not expect to eat if they did not work.

~ Sunday Adelaja

People should not expect to reap if they have not sown.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

~ Anthony Liccione

I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.

~ Richard Paul Evans

An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime.

~ Unarine Ramaru

I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when I complete them, I give myself a piece of candy, a glass of tea and some free time to enjoy- that is how I honor my hardworking and appreciate my struggles.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.

~ T.f. Hodge

a lot of happiness lead a person to disappointments.

~ Aribazafar

I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curfew: my feet were hurting, my hair was slipping free from its pins, and my makeup was getting all smudged from sweat. I was unbelievably tired, undeniably depressed, and I just wanted charming.

~ J.m. Richards

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

~ Sylvia Plath

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

~ Jodi Picoult

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

~ Roberto Bolaño

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

~ Jeff Kinney

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

~ Lisa Kleypas

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

~ Tonya Hurley

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

~ Robert Jordan

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.

~ Tom Perrotta

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

~ Julia Glass

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

~ John Green

I hope you do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life.

~ Julianne Donaldson

...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”...

~ L.m. Montgomery

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

~ Lionel Shriver

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

~ L.m. Montgomery

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

~ Guy Finley

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.

~ Tonya Hurley

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

~ J.k. Rowling