Expectations Quotes

A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.

~ Anthony Liccione

Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.

~ Ellen Airgood

Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.

~ Lionel Suggs

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

~ Lisa Gardiner

What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.

~ May Sarton

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

If you expect perfection from other people your whole life is a series of disappointments grumbling and complaints. If on the contrary you pitch your expectations low taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

~ Bruce Barton

A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

~ Margaret Deland

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

~ George Eliot

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

~ L. M. Montgomery

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.

~ Italian Proverb

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

~ Marcelene Cox

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

~ George Santayana

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

~ Flannery O'connor

Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.

~ Madeleine L'engle

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

No one is happy all his life long.

~ Euripides

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

~ Marcus Aurelius

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards but because they are men.

~ Ludwig Lewisohn

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

~ Herbert Hoover

If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.

~ Abigail Van Buren

Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems not even saints or sages.

~ Nichiren Daishonen

Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.

~ O. Henry

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

~ George Eliot

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

~ Dennis Wholey

When nobody around you seems to measure up it's time to check your yardstick.

~ Bill Lemley

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

~ Brooks Atkinson

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

~ Napoleon Hill

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

~ Erich Fromm

It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune.

~ Harvey Oxenhorn

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities the strength the wisdom the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments.

~ Charlton Ogburn

In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.

~ Talmud