Expectations Fail Quotes

#1. There is no way you would fail to meet my expectations, they have been shattered in the face of the beautiful reality that is you." And there goes my heart, where did it go? Oh yes, in his pocket to carry around for all time.

Alanea Alder

#2. Man may fail you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#4. The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them ...

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#6. Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#7. beware of expectations. They ruin us. When we expect anything of anyone, we are asking them to fail.

D.L. Bogdan

#8. Just being here is more than I deserve. There is no way you would fail to meet my expectations, they have been shattered in the face of the beautiful reality that is you.

Alanea Alder

#9. Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

Alice Hegan Rice

#10. The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

Grimes

#11. Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

John Daly

#12. Only thing that makes us fail in all moments, expectations.

Yogeshwaran Selvaraju

#13. We're always trotting out some story of a ninety-seven-year-old who runs marathons, as if such cases were not miracles of biological luck but reasonable expectations for all. Then, when our bodies fail to live up to this fantasy, we feel as if we somehow have something to apologize for.

Atul Gawande

#14. A combination of unrealistic goals, unnecessarily pessimistic expectations, and the wrong incentives for teachers contributes to ensure that education systems in developing countries fail their two main tasks: giving everyone a sound basic set of skills, and identifying talent.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#15. When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.

Denis Hayes

#16. We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

Shigeru Yoshida

#17. OF course they did,' she snapped back. 'According to them, you single-handedly won a dozen battles, restored the Spanish throne, and infiltrated Napoleon's inner circle, after which you rode an elephant, wrestled a crocodile, and swam the Straits of Gibraltar.

Eloisa James

#18. Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.

Bob Anderson

#19. Problem with attempting to live up to other people's expectations was that you were destined to fail before you even began. I

Denise Grover Swank

#20. If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you'll be successful. Once you start making a 'Plan B', you distract from 'Plan A', and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

A.J. Darkholme

#21. Winning the world to Christ means winning individuals.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#22. ...'Not all dreams get broken. We all need dreams.'...

Kapka Kassabova

#23. By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Thomas Hobbes

#24. 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

#25. One time I stayed at a haunted motel. When I checked into my room, there was a sheet on the floor, and I thought it was a ghost that had passed out, so I kicked it.

Mitch Hedberg

#26. Love doesn't fail us, it's our expectations that fail us. Lovers sometimes forget that the gift is the call to love itself, and not the result. The quickening, the deepening, the merging, the burning bright in love's cosmic kiln. That's the great gift, no matter where it leads.

Jeff Brown

#27. Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

Jennifer Aniston