Expectations Quotes

we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams. - George Weasly

~ J.k. Rowling

You should only expect something from your efforts.

~ Sunday Adelaja

What are you? Do you know? What you are is you're always trying to smooth everything over. What you are is always trying to be moderate. What you are is never telling the truth if you think it's going to hurt somebody's feelings. What you are is you're always compromising. What you are is always complacent. What you are is always trying to find the bright side of things. The one with the manners. The one who abides everything patiently. The one with ultimate decorum. The boy who never breaks the code.

~ Philip Roth

You must be engaged with the process of producing something to expect something.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Right expectations, from the right people at the right time, that’s the art of expecting.

~ Ashlecka Aumrivani

Zero Expectations? What's that? I believe in Smart Expectations.

~ Ashlecka Aumrivani

There are misplaced expectations, once you recognize those, you are only left with smart ones. To expect yourself to expect nothing (from others) is going against human psychology. Expectation is the root of all valid transactions and fulfillment.

~ Ashlecka Aumrivani

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed I was due a love story.

~ Sara Barnard

I do not adjust my standpoint to others expactations.

~ Marko Burazor

sometimesmoms are bribes,bludgeoning,with tongues that chase youwhenever you get a chance passed a mirror

~ Kay Ulanday Barrett

What have you done to qualify yourself for the miracles you are expecting.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Result won’t come if we don’t provide the reason for it to come.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Only crazy people don’t do anything new and they expecting new result.

~ Sunday Adelaja

People tend to freak out when something diverges from their expectations.

~ Gayle Foreman

She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.

~ George Macdonald

What is it that causes us to fall in love? We are met with those first, initial glimpses-- a kind of curiosity, a longing for that which is both familiar and unknown in the other. And then comes the surprise of discovery; we share certain aspirations, certain appreciations, and that which is different excites us. Before each other, we are moved to bravery and we come to reveal more and more of ourselves, and when we do, those very traits that caused us some embarrassment or shame become beautiful in ways we did not understand before, and the entire world becomes more beautiful for it. There are, too, those intimate and nearly primitive stirrings, the scent of the neck, the delicious tremble of skin and breath. Yet for all their pleasures, they are as tenuous as light and air, and demand no fidelity.And then there is this: Does not love depend on some belief in the future, some expectation beyond the delight of the moment? We fall in love because we imagine a certain life together. We will marry. We will laugh and dance together. We will have children.When expectation falls to ruins, what is there left for love?

~ Eowyn Ivey

I've learned that I have to stop equating saying yes with being a good person. I think I am being good when I say yes to everything, but saying yes to something I cannot live up to leads to bitterness and disappointment.

~ Karin Rahbek

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't let others expectations direct the course of your life.

~ Julianne Donaldson

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't you wanna be a great baseball player?” He sighed back into the wall. “I want to be a great man, Fielding.” And so we stand, proved of our existence by those who see us. And how did I see Grand, how did any of us, but as the one who would be great at this and that, as long as it was baseball and girls. He always had to be what we wanted him to be first. He existed only by proxy to our dreams of him.

~ Tiffany Mcdaniel

Living is a constant process of debunking our romantic notions of how our personal life will unfold. Reality oftentimes fails to meet a person’s glamorous expectations.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

For nearly four weeks, his family had been walking on eggshells around him, expecting him to fall apart at any moment and he was damn tired of it. He wished he could apart. Maybe it would hurt less if he could just say to hell with everything and find a corner to hide away in.

~ Nicola Sinclair

You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect.

~ Scott Simpson

In addition to being statistically unlikely, perfectly fulfilled expectations are boring. We assume that we, in our infinite wisdom, are capable of imagining the best, most optimal outcomes for ourselves. But as it turns out, unfettered reality and unexpected detours are often the very things that force us to come into our own.

~ Clara Bensen

When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A man must know the expectations of his woman and a woman must know the expectations of her man.

~ Girdhar Joshi

If he loves you he will meet your effort.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

Sometimes my entire life has felt like one long exercise in lowering my expectations.

~ Melissa Decarlo

One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; there's baggage that gets carried into the venue that we can't see.

~ David Byrne

Failed expectations ruin marriages and kills love in the process. You and your partner deserve to know what you’re both getting into… and knowing now is better than later. .

~ Eeva Lancaster

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

i prefer people see me sit in the corner, shut and look stupid, rather see me look smart and cool..i disgust a high expectations of people on me because I don't want to have to live in this world with their expectations (Ejump, 2016)

~ Ejump Schiffler

One must not expect every thing.

~ Jane Austen

What you think, you see. Your expectations create your reality.

~ Kelly Corbet

Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.

~ Robert Jackson Bennett

Susie: Okay, Calvin. But you know what? You can't say, youcan'texpectanythingfrommeI'mbroken! And turn around the next minute and say, ohwoeismeeverybodytreatsmelikeI'mbroken! Which one is it? I can treat you the way I really feel, or I can treat you careful.Me: Real. Just be real.

~ Martine Leavitt

Messy is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the messy.

~ Steve Maraboli

She’d struck Esk once before – the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough idea of what to expect from life.

~ Terry Pratchett