Top 100 Expectations Are Quotes
#1. I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.
Kim Cattrall
#2. Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws
Norhafsah Hamid
#3. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony De Mello
#4. Expectations are dangerous things. They've probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name.
Seanan McGuire
#5. Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we [filmmakers] made.
Tom Hanks
#7. Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.
James E. Faust
#8. Nonmonogamous folks recognize that during a lifetime you can and will be attracted to other people even if you are in a wonderful, fulfilling relationship; they make room in their relationship for these attractions rather than allow them to cause anxiety, jealousy, and unreasonable expectations.
Tristan Taormino
#9. When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.
Mason Cooley
#10. Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth.
Balroop Singh
#11. Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
Samuel Johnson
#12. We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
Norm MacDonald
#13. By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rob ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectations.
Russell Kyle
#14. Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.
Lionel Suggs
#16. When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Donald Miller
#17. You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.
Wes Craven
#18. I have a senior staff meeting every day, with key personnel who interface with the players - coaches, the medical staff, our analyst department. This is a useful exercise as it means we are all across what is happening and they are aware of my expectations.
Brendan Rodgers
#19. Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.
Wm. Paul Young
#20. Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.
Jeaniene Frost
#21. People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.
Gabe Newell
#22. Everyone just kind of leans their expectations of who you are on you and it makes you petrified of who you really might be.
Iain S. Thomas
#23. A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.
Roz Savage
#24. Gestalt Prayer
I do my thing and you do yours.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
And if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#25. This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.
Walter Mosley
#27. We enjoy the expectations people have of us. The higher they are, the more pressure, the better we like it.
Jurgen Klinsmann
#28. When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#29. No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.
Lysa TerKeurst
#30. 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
#31. So much depends on our expectations of what our life should be. The less you expect, the more content you are.
Lucinda Riley
#32. Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
Derek Jacobi
#33. People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.
Charmian Hussey
#34. There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.
Peter Greenaway
#35. If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.
Mark W. Boyer
#36. The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power ...
Rajneesh
#37. Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
Edith Evans
#39. I've learned that it's fine to have expectations, and dreams are wonderful, but once in a while, it would be good to have something come my way without having to fight for it.
Adriana Trigiani
#40. Any time you sign a big contract, you get in those later years, the expectations are high to play at a high level.
Johnathan Joseph
#41. I must be continually ready to give up the parts of my life that God wants to replace with trust in him, even if what I need to give up are my own expectations and continual need to be in the driver's seat of my life.
Kristen Strong
#42. Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
Anne Lamott
#43. We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.
R.A. Salvatore
#44. Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.
Chris Alexander
#45. Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn't able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these.
Lysa TerKeurst
#46. Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#47. I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.
Louise Hay
#48. I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.
John Starks
#49. There are a number of ways to establish someone's approximate survival expectations without actually asking.
John Green
#50. Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.
Baltasar Gracian
#51. Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.
Lee Ann Womack
#52. If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.
Alistair Begg
#53. You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.
Robin Hobb
#54. 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
#55. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.
Rumi
#56. We can arrange better expectations and better circumstances beginning with the fact that we need not be who we are now; we can be better.
Charles C. Harpe
#57. Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.
Bryant McGill
#59. After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"
Jazmine Sullivan
#60. We do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.
Katherine Anne Porter
#61. Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse.
Shilpa Sandesh
#62. Conclude that your are worth achieving beyond your expectations
Gino Norris
#63. When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
Frances O'Grady
#64. Life has no limits. We are limited by our expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Fear and other emotions are based on assumptions, presuppositions, and expectations; they are constructed in the brain from nonemotional ingredients.
Joseph E. Ledoux
#67. Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is ... only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.
Steve Goodier
#68. Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional - the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.
Geoffrey Wood
#69. Evaluation eliminates frustration.
We should also evaluate unrealistic expectations.
Unrealistic expectations become unmet expectations. And unmet expectations are like kindling wood-it only takes but a spark of frustration to set them ablaze and burn those involved.
Lysa TerKeurst
#70. Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.
Sarah Lacy
#71. Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.
Jandy Nelson
#72. Daniel: So, how are you?
Sophie: Buckling under the weight of a thousand expectations. You?
Maria Malonzo
#73. In life, there are a lot of expectations. I see why in the South, especially, there's a simple existence. People, whether they're cowboys or farmers or ranchers, you just get up, you do your job, you have a family, you come home.
Scott Haze
#74. I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
Ken Burns
#75. People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think.
C. JoyBell C.
#76. Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it's better. Sometimes it's worse. And sometimes it's just different. It's not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to turn out. Just go with the flow and keep your eyes and ears peeled.
Abby Rosmarin
#77. I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
Laura Wasser
#78. I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.
Peter Thiel
#79. I needed to remind myself that good news and bad news are often relative to your expectations, not anything absolute.
Will Schwalbe
#80. In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.
Delia Ephron
#81. Clashing expectations are what most consistently derail any team, and especially a culturally diverse team. So if you take the time to "define" the goal carefully upfront, you've addressed one of the most difficult and important parts of the innovative process.
David Livermore
#82. There are just so many options that people have. But as a writer, you'll drive yourself crazy, if you worry about that too much. People watch a lot of TV, so they think certain things are going to happen, and you're always trying to subvert expectations.
Carlton Cuse
#83. True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
Suze Orman
#84. If you don't know, then it's all right. There need not be any expectations. If there are no expectations, then you are free. If you expect, then you are in bondage. Choose whatever you want. Expectations are never fulfilled.
H.W.L. Poonja
#85. As young people, we are surrounded by expectations that may have little to do with who we really are, expectations held by people who are not trying to discern our selfhood but to fit us into slots.
Parker J. Palmer
#86. One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
Tiger Woods
#87. Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. Edwards Deming
#88. Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.
Elizabeth Bowen
#89. What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
Ludwig Von Mises
#90. To avoid being disappointed, avoid placing your expectations on others. Love lets them be who they are and it allows them to react the way they want to react.
Praying Medic
#91. We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.
Kofi Annan
#92. Live simply", she said. "Don't expect so much out of life. You can only be disappointed when your expectations are not met so strive for the best but keep your expectations simple." I
Donald Murray
#93. Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As
Marian Keyes
#94. The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#95. Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?
Jimmy Fallon
#96. Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.
Jurgen Klinsmann
#97. Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.
Brenda Ueland
#99. That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities; for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.
Sallust
#100. Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
Beau Willimon
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