Expectations Quotes

You can't expect to reap a harvest that you're not willing to plant.

~ Yvonne Pierre

Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions

~ Sherif A. El-Mawardy

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am me. And if by chance we find each other, it will be beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.

~ Frederick Salomon Perls

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

~ David Levithan

I loved this place. You could prop up the bar and watch the world go by, no one made you talk or expected anything of you

~ Tim Relf

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

~ Daniel Woodrell

Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head.Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.

~ Rick Riordan

To expect punishment is to suffer it, and to earn it is to expect it.

~ Seneca

It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture.Each evening I retreat from it, and I go straight to the Gospels.It's not out of duty that I read about Jesus; it's a respite.

~ Brant Hansen

To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.

~ Pat Riley

My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

~ Evelyn Waugh

He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.

~ Thomas Hardy

Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don't forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free from an unhealthy attachment to our expectations.

~ Steve Maraboli

One of the reasons the team on NCIS works so well-is that they live by their leader's rules-which are not a secret .What are your rules/standards? Do the people in your life know what they are? Do you hold grudges/resentments when they don't measure up? Do you pretend that everything is fine-when it's not-and close up a little every day?And most importantly-When was the last time YOU reviewed/upgraded your standards/expectations rules-and took a look at the impact around you/checked in?(Hint-most people live from rules/standards/expectations created from reactions/perceptions formed around the age of six)Might be time for a review/upgrade........

~ Dave Rudbarg

I want everyone to stop telling me to lower my expectations.

~ Tracy Guzeman

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

~ Guy Gavriel Kay

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

~ Thucydides

People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.

~ Charmian Hussey

People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

~ Travis Luedke

When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver’s seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect great outcomes. Expect that you are the best candidate and that you will achieve your goals.

~ Lorii Myers

Tell yourself often: I am going to tackle my aspirations head on with the passion and dedication necessary to exceed even my expectations.

~ Lorii Myers

Expectations are made to be exceeded!

~ Lorii Myers

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

~ Bernie Glassman

Take a moment and think of something small but significant that you've wanted for decades. Dream about it. Wish for it. Let the dreaming and wishing sink deeply into your being. Add some memories of disappointment just for a little flavor. At some point, over time, a wish can become too important, can become much bigger as a dream than it ever had a right to be.

~ Virginia M. Sanders

She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.

~ Laura Jacobs

All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here that the competition is the greatest, the expectations most elevated. If the boy would be happier as a telephone linesman or a forest ranger, he is in a hopeless bind. His goals have been set for him by his milieu, and he cannot be his own man; so he simply refuses to play the game. He does not try.

~ Sydney J. Harris

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

~ V.s. Naipaul

Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.

~ Steven Redhead

I think it’s weird how vanilla people just jump into a bed and fuck and don’t ever relish the moment, don’t talk to each other about what works and what doesn’t. So many people just expect sex to happen, but really great sex takes work, like everything in life. You have to talk to your partner.

~ Lexi Blake

Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did--a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down?

~ Christie Craig

I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.''If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.

~ Anne Brontë

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

~ Charles Dickens

Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.

~ Shannon L. Alder

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.

~ Victor L. Wooten

It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.

~ Sartika Kurniali

Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.

~ Michael Gruber

Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.

~ Idries Shah