Top 88 Expect Too Much Sayings
#1. Leaders must have patience for those under your supervision. Don't expect too much too soon. Maybe it was easy for you, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy for somebody else. Be sure you have patience.
John Wooden
#2. People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#3. There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness ... We expect too much.
Joseph P. Farrell
#4. We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#6. We should not expect too much from faith," he said. "Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly.
Margaret Atwood
#8. Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.
George Bernard Shaw
#9. 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
#10. Don't expect too much from yourself. What I like to do when I have a day off is make various cookie doughs and freeze them. Then I always have that on hand if I need it.
Giada De Laurentiis
#11. People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.
Rajneesh
#12. Just take things as they come. And, as you go though life, find as much good as you possible can. But never expect too much from life.
Charmian Hussey
#13. If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon
Po Bronson
#14. When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.
Josh Homme
#15. Forgive me, dear Mr. Troy! I am very unhappy, and very unreasonable - but I am only a woman, and you must not expect too much from me.
Wilkie Collins
#16. I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.
Sylvia Kristel
#17. And I'll never let myself down..How so? I don't expect too much from me.
Joe Budden
#18. You mustn't expect too much," I said. "Happiness consists of wanting what you get.
Peter Stamm
#19. I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.
Matthias Schoenaerts
#20. I'm from New Jersey / I don't expect too much / If the world ended today / I would adjust ...
John Gorka
#21. 'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.
Michelle Dockery
#22. I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#23. You're a romantic," said Crabbe. "You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we see that it's all there is, well-it miraculously ceases to be dull.
Anthony Burgess
#24. Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
George Santayana
#25. People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
Lewis H. Lapham
#26. Don't expect too much from others because people behave according to their perspective, not yours. Accept people as they are and avoid controlling them, only then they will give you their best.
Hina Hashmi
#27. To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor
#28. Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
William Feather
#29. And the Sphinx broke its long silence:
Don't expect too much.
Carl Sandburg
#30. Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.
Bryan Adams
#31. The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable.
It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang.
Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough
or receiving in us just the right answer.
You, the Staggering Answer
Buddy Wakefield
#32. Let mortal man keep to his own
Mortality, and not expect too much.
Euripides
#33. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
Jane Austen
#35. People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
Jonathan Ames
#36. Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.
Terry Tempest Williams
#37. People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.
Charmian Hussey
#38. Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
Bill Vaughan
#39. Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.
Ruth Graham
#40. Let us not expect too much from our own hearts here below. At our best we shall find in ourselves daily cause for humiliation, and discover that we are needy debtors to mercy and grace every hour.
J.C. Ryle
#41. People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.
Laozi
#42. Men expect too much, do too little,
Put the contraption before the accomplishment,
Lack skill of the interior mind
To fashion dignity with shapes of air.
Luxury, yes but not elegance!
Allen Tate
#43. Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.
Susan B. Anthony
#44. Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#45. We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.
Pam Brown
#46. The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.
Orison Swett Marden
#47. One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.
William Osler
#48. It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides
#49. Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said.
Lev Artsimovich
#51. It's me. I always expect too much. I'm always floored when I don't get it.
Nora Roberts
#52. I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.
Greg Norman
#53. Men expect too much, do too little.
Allen Tate
#54. We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.
Chris Hodges
#55. We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.
Jane Jacobs
#56. Never expect too much from the life ... it will only frustrate or disappoint you.
Santonu Kumar Dhar
#57. Never expect too much from a friend and you will never want for one.
Sophie Irene Loeb
#58. Do not expect too much from the world. We are here to give not to take.
Radhe Maa
#59. Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
Dean Koontz
#60. Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.
Dalai Lama
#61. I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.
Evan Osnos
#62. It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
John Howard
#63. When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.
Sunday Adelaja
#64. I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.
Frank Robinson
#65. Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.
John Flanagan
#67. I don't know. I try not to think about it too much. I'm perfectly satisfied with my life. I think unhappiness comes from unfulfilled expectations." "So the less you expect from life . . ." "No. It's not like that. I just try to be happy and not wish I could do more.
Kasie West
#68. As young women, we all feel a pressure to look a certain way, and sometimes it is just too much to handle. But, there are good and bad ways to deal with this pressure. A terrible way to handle this pressure is to complain about all of our flaws and expect other girls to join in.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#69. It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter
Lewis Strauss
#70. Fallen flowers can't climb back.
If the root is strong, we can expect new flowers. Don't think too much about the 'lost' past.
Just love the present & live for the future.
From the tree, I learn, Make your roots strong. There will never be shortage of flowers
Unknown
#71. Boy children are primed to expect everything from their wives in the marriage, and not give too much if anything at all.
Pinki Virani
#72. In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?
Ernest L. Boyer
#73. He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.
Arthur C. Clarke
#74. We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.
Matthew Henry
#75. Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.
Dr. John
#76. I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.
Grant Morrison
#77. Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?
Mortimer J. Adler
#78. I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
Vikram Seth
#79. She had seen too much of the world, to expect sudden or disinterested attachment anywhere,
Jane Austen
#80. Too much reason limits man to the physical world and blinds his imagination to the greater things that may be. But too much faith blinds him from curing the human suffering in this world. Men with too much faith accept suffering; they expect it and even seek it out.
John Kramer
#81. You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
Larry McMurtry
#82. Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars
for you? That I would take you there? The splash
of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?
Richard Siken
#83. Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?
Tina Fey
#84. Because of technology today, we expect kids to stay in touch with us too much. I think that's unnatural. We really do have to give kids their freedom and allow them to go off and become adults.
Andie MacDowell
#85. Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.
Clarence Day
#86. Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#87. I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.
Sara Sheridan
#88. If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.
Milarepa
