Disappointment Expectations Quotes

#1. We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

Norm MacDonald

#2. I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments

Robin Wasserman

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

Charmian Hussey

#4. Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

James Franco

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

Callie Hunter

#7. Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

John C. Maxwell

#8. in loving relationships the absence of regularly reinforcing warm feelings automatically breeds disappointment and resentment as a by-product of frustrated expectations and desires.

John W. Jacobs

#9. Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#10. You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don't welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself.

Abigail Biddinger

#11. If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

Tonya Hurley

#12. She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.

Donna Lynn Hope

#13. Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.

Norm MacDonald

#14. Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Samuel Johnson

#15. No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

Jude Morgan

#16. 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

#17. The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

Charles Krauthammer

#18. In public administration good sense would seem to require the public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize the eventual disappointment.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Sue Fitzmaurice

#20. The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

George Will

#21. Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

Mason Cooley

#22. Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.

Randall Jarrell

#23. Let go of all expectations, and you shall never be disappointed. I find that rather disappointing to never be disappointed is very expected. Therefore let's only let go of those expectations we know will disappoint us and let's expect to be disappointed sometimes. Life is beautiful that way.

Nicole Haslam

#24. The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

Alexandra David-Neel

#25. 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

#26. No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#27. He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Samuel Johnson

#28. 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

#29. Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

Brad Meltzer

#30. Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.

Dan Groat

#31. Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Laurence Overmire

#32. When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Ryan Reynolds

#33. How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place.

Paige Toon

#34. Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Demi Lovato

#35. Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

Guy Finley

#36. Copywriting basically consists of taking something dreadful, putting it in a box with a shiny ribbon, and presenting it to someone. Any disappointment the recipient has upon opening the box is entirely due to their own high expectations and therefore their fault.

David Thorne

#37. I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ...

Mary Russell Mitford

#38. It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.

Seth Rogen

#39. The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

Jack Levine

#40. Remember, disappointment is cured by revamped expectations.

Max Lucado

#41. Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.

Stephen Sondheim

#42. When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

Dan Millman

#43. When we're confronted by reality that's less than our expectations, we go into a downward spiral of disappointment and frustration that can leave us even more stuck.

Joshua Freedman

#44. I couldn't afford to tangle myself up in other people's expectations and inevitable disappointment. It would be awful. An ever-expanding cycle of everyone feeling bad, like a bulimic serpent eating its own tail.

Alexis Hall

#45. Don't burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

#46. I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.

Semir Zeki

#47. People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.

Isaac Asimov

#48. I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

Famke Janssen

#49. Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Mary Douglas

#50. And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#51. Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

Abigail Van Buren

#52. If you truly dwell within Acceptance, you are wityout two things-Expectations and Disappointments.

Mary Summer Rain

#53. The definition of disappointment in life is expectations minus reality equals disappointment. The only two solutions you have to get over disappointment is to either alter your reality or alter your expectations.

Randy Carlson

#54. Disappointment is unmet expectations, and the more significant the expectations, the more significant the disappointment.

Brene Brown

#55. But in those moments when disappointment is washing over us and we're desperately trying to get our heads and hearts around what is or is not going to be, the death of our expectations can be painful beyond measure. The

Brene Brown

#56. Asking why had somehow led me to the thing that I loved - the feeling of moving over the earth, with the earth, the sensation of being in the present, free from chores and expectations and disappointment and worry.

Scott Jurek

#57. Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there are disappointments ... one must not keep expectations. I like to be positive in love. I believe in happy endings.

Katrina Kaif

#58. And the disappointment you face when you can't live up to your own expectations is even more tedious than the frequency with which you let yourself down. So

John C. Parkin

#59. Rather than adjust his expectations in the face of disappointment, he (Jefferson) tended to bury them deeper inside himself and regard the disjunction between his ideals and the worldly imperfections as the world's problems rather than his own.

Joseph J. Ellis

#60. I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#61. If you put me on a pedestal, I will fall off because I can never achieve the perfection of your expectations.

D.S. Mixell

#62. The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

Ashwin Sanghi

#63. One always expects something else.

Erich Maria Remarque

#64. Though most spiritual seekers start their search afraid of disappointment, Jesus says that he will always be infinitely more than anyone is looking for. He will always exceed our expectations; he will be more than we can ask for or imagine. So

Timothy J. Keller

#65. Youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#66. Considering the extravagance of my expectations, the flying experience was bound to be a disappointment.

Edna Robinson

#67. Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed.

Patricia McCormick

#68. Yes, if we care enough and dare enough, we will experience disappointment. But in those moments when disappointment is washing over us and we're desperately trying to get our heads and hearts around what is or is not going to be, the death of our expectations can be painful beyond measure.

Brene Brown

#69. I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Criss Jami

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

L.M. Montgomery

#71. The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment.

Dorothy Dunnett

#72. Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#73. Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

Gary Hopkins

#74. When you expect something from your self and your own self disappoints you ... this is what i call a real disappointment . The worst disappointments comes from in-within.

Sameh Elsayed

#75. A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

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