Don't Have Expectations Quotes

#1. I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Michael Landon

#2. I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.

Chronixx

#3. I live in New York and I love it, because it doesn't make me feel like my life is always just about acting and that world of acting. I don't have expectations.

Sebastian Stan

#4. Don't expect too much from me, cos i might not meet up to your expectations, don't underestimate me, cos i just might do the unexpected, don't expect the truth from me always cos am human, and don't even try to judge me, cos you have not gone trough half of what av been trough

Odeyale Opeyemi

#5. The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.

Joel Greenblatt

#6. I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

Sylvester Stallone

#7. Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.

Patrick Whitesell

#8. Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do and what you should be - it's only a silly idea that passes through your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

Andrew Weil

#10. I don't have any expectations of anything.

Peter Capaldi

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

Isaac Asimov

#12. Accept the children the way we accept trees - with gratitude, because they are a blessing - but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

Isabel Allende

#13. 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

#14. I know a lot of actors have all these expectations and believe that one thing should lead to another thing, and that's probably the right way to build a career. I don't know what's wrong with me - I just don't think like that!

Melanie Lynskey

#15. When you love, love with with all your heart; don't have any expectations. You love because that's the only way you know how. It justifies your life.

Rita Zahara

#16. Don't place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.

Jared Padalecki

#17. You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.

Jesse Williams

#18. 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

#19. If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

Hale Irwin

#20. I don't have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

James D'arcy

#21. It makes my skin crawl when people tell me, 'Don't worry, you'll get another series.' Their expectations have little to do with mine.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#22. 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

#23. I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I do it so I don't have to be let down. And yet again I am lowballed by the brokenness of the American cultural machine.

Vinnie Tesla

#24. Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being paid, so I can say whatever I want. I don't have to justify the cost of a book to readers; they get it for free, so expectations are naturally low. (And no one-star reviews!)

Kate Christensen

#25. They don't know they have expectations, but I show them by counterexample what their expectations were.

John Darnielle

#26. I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.

David Oakes

#27. People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.

Tobias Hill

#28. When people see good, they expect good. I don't want to have to live up to anyone's expectations.

L.J.Smith

#29. I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Tom Hanks

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

Patricia McCormick

#31. I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

Eddie Huang

#32. Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

Josh Radnor

#33. If I'm going to be a student here, treated on equal terms, then I have to be willing to do everything that they do," I said. "There can't be two sets of expectations, one for them and one for me, the only girl in the class. How will I earn their esteem if I don't pose?

Sharon Biggs Waller

#34. We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Lauryn Hill

#35. I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

Dane Cook

#36. I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

Audrey Tautou

#37. I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Roxane Gay

#38. When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so I feel like we appreciate it all the more to have all this good fortune come our way, which we hadn't really been planning.

Ty Burrell

#39. I don't have any expectations.

Delta Goodrem

#40. 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

#41. I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

Aleksandar Hemon

#42. I could not fill those expectations. I've never been presented to the queen," Hamilton said. "Because we live in America and don't have a queen.

Jen Turano

#43. My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.

Don McLean

#44. When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.

Jimmy Carter

#45. I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me.

Daunte Culpepper

#46. I work in comedy, journalism, media, and technology, many of which don't have a lot of black faces in visible positions. I walk through Brooklyn with a surfboard. It's fun to challenge and expand people's expectations.

Baratunde Thurston

#47. Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.

Elaine S. Dalton

#48. I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

Elisabeth Shue

#49. I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.

Hilton Als

#50. There is a terrible beauty to isolation. You don't have to accept responsibility for others, or live up to their expectations. You could dip your toe into humanity's maelstrom from time to time, or sit on the river bank and observe.

Celia Stander

#51. When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

Tony Robbins

#52. I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

Casey Stoner

#53. As women, we do feel like we have to live up to an expectation, whether it's on camera or going to the market or whatever it is. And the truth of the matter is, that's not always the way it is. We don't always have our high heels on, we don't always have our makeup on.

Jennifer Aniston

#54. I don't really care too much about Valentine's Day ... I've never had a valentine or anything. I've always just spent it with my friends, so I don't really have much expectation for Valentine's Day.

Emma Roberts

#55. I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.

David Oyelowo

#56. I don't know what my expectations are. It's like the word 'potential.' Those two words don't mean a whole lot to me. We can't please everybody. Certainly, we have to please ourselves first.

Jimy Williams

#57. I think things are beautiful when you don't plan them, and you don't have any expectations, and you're not trying to get somewhere in particular.

Alison Mosshart

#58. We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship
we don't want this relationship to go out of control.

Dimitri Simes

#59. I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.

Francis Chan

#60. I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

Lupe Fiasco

#61. People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

Rodney King

#62. Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

Joshua Ferris

#63. You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations, just be the best you can be

Joel Osteen

#64. I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure in the task. If you don't, you will drive yourself off a cliff because your fortunes will rise and fall, and if you identify too closely with that, you really will go insane.

Sarah Ruhl

#65. I don't like to have really any expectations for myself.

Lee DeWyze

#66. If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.

Chris Lehane

#67. People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

Candice Bergen

#68. Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to do this, and by the time I've hit 25 I'm going to do that'. I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen then all well and good.

Renee Zellweger

#69. We've been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn't. ... I want to live in a world where we don't have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.

Stella Young

#70. There must be an opportunity that matches with our strategy. Just because we have a gap, we don't want to go and acquire anything and everything. What we acquire should fit in with our strategy, human resources and market expectations.

Adi Godrej