Expectations Quotes

Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.

~ Diane Meier

Nothing in life or love slipped easily into the tidy little box of his expectations.

~ Dan Sofer

Do not lower your expectations in order to avoid hurt. Instead, keep your expectations high and learn to tackle with disappointments.

~ Dhaval Gajera

One always expects something else.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

Don’t assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.

~ Turcois Ominek

Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed.

~ Lemony Snicket

When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.

~ Debasish Mridha

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~ Justin Go

No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

To avoid being disappointed, avoid placing your expectations on others. Love lets them be who they are and it allows them to react the way they want to react.

~ Praying Medic

I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand.

~ Jenna Karel

You cannot win anymore even if you do your best. Because everyone is doing their best. In order to win, you have to do more than you best.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

Even the ones who love you most will let you down. They are the ones who will disappoint you more because your expectations of them are higher. When you feel like they have let you down, you need to realize that it is not them who have let you down, but it is only your expectations that were not met.

~ Pinkie Numa

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

~ Bryant Mcgill

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

~ Julie Murphy

Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans and Americans found tremendous joy in building their relationships around these values, the adoption of these unprecedented goals for marriage had unanticipated and revolutionary consequences that have since come to threaten the stability of the entire institution.

~ Stephanie Coontz

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

~ Richard Marius

Free yourself from the expectations of having to be right with the wrong information.

~ Linda Deir

People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.

~ David Brooks

Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, it's our own expectations that crush us.

~ Paul Murray

My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect.

~ Ryan Lilly

If you don't get disappointed when you raise your expectations, you don't get appointments from where your mind is not!

~ Bayode Ojo

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?

~ David Levithan

If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?

~ Alexandra Bracken

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

~ William Shakespeare

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

~ Jim Butcher

I notice you didn’t include a blade with your new attire,” Royce said. “Not even a little jeweled dagger.”“Lords no.” Albert looked appalled. “I don’t fight.”“I thought all nobles learned sword fighting.” Royce looked to Hadrian.“I thought so too.”“Nobles with competent fathers perhaps. I spent my formative years at my aunt’s at Huffington Manor. She held a daily salon, where a dozen noble ladies came to discuss all manner of philosophical topics, like how much they hated their husbands. I’ve never actually held a sword, but I can tie a mean corset and apply face paint like a gold-coin whore.

~ Michael J. Sullivan

It’s scary when it’s real. When it’s not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.

~ Jenny Han

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting

~ ;Marcel Proust

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up to confront him with all its essential sloppiness, irrationality, and bad business sense.

~ T.c. Boyle

Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it’s better. Sometimes it’s worse. And sometimes it’s just different. It’s not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to turn out. Just go with the flow and keep your eyes and ears peeled.

~ Abby Rosmarin

I trust you. Those are the last words my father said before he left. That means that every decision I make, I would have to question myself whether it was the right one. I can picture him, expectations in his eyes. Because of that, I can see the same look in others. He could not have damned me more.

~ Celia Mcmahon

I know for a fact the first UFOs reported in modern times, just before the crash at Roswell, were boomerang shaped and were reported as 'flying saucers' to describe the motion of their flight, like a saucer skipping over water. Yet immediately after, people saw and photographed saucer-shaped objects. Boomerang-shaped objects were rarely seen. Now people mostly report seeing large triangles instead of discs or boomerangs, because that is what they are told to expect to see.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life..

~ Shivam Singh

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

~ Jane Jacobs

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

~ Donna Lynn Hope