Top 100 Expectations Life Quotes
#1. Life is happening at this very moment; it is not behind us or before us. The past is full of memories and future is full of expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#2. The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.
John C. Maxwell
#3. Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation ... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of your life, how you integrate them is how you find true happiness.
Denise Morrison
#4. Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness.
Debasish Mridha
#5. You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
Stevie Wonder
#6. When our expectations differ from better, we think bitter, but that is not better! Stay better, think positive, no matter what; there is always a better lesson to learn!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#7. I have learnt that once one lets go of all expectations, one can never be disappointed; everything then that comes one's way, will be an appreciated blessing.
Aisha Mirza
#8. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations. Get on with my less-than life. I didn't want to feel better about being still alive. Start compensating.
Chuck Palahniuk
#9. I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
Howard Schultz
#10. You shouldn't live your life according to someone else's expectations
Steven Aitchison
#11. Expectations is an anchor, a heavy burden every man if the first carry and then overcome if he is to ever to reach the shorelines of his dreams.
Peter S. Fogg
#12. Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.
Diane Meier
#13. As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
Ban Ki-moon
#14. 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
#15. At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.
Shirley Hazzard
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they'd actually made some sort of choice.
Tom Perrotta
#19. I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
Michael Landon
#21. At times what you expect and what happens don't match.
The faster you accept and adapt to what happened & work towards creating what you believed, that what you expected gets created in a whole new way..!
Sujit Lalwani
#22. My life - and this hit so hard I nearly toppled over - my life was Apollo 13! Launched with high expectations and pathetically crashed.
Jerry Stahl
#23. Don't waste your life living out other people's expectations.
Tai Sheridan
#24. The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ.
D. James Kennedy
#25. The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#26. There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
Iris Murdoch
#27. Suffering happens when we expect life to be something more and different than what it is in the present moment. When we let go of all expectations, there is peace.
Kim Eng
#28. 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
#29. There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth.
Husam Wafaei
#30. ..the greatest unhappiness a person can feel in life is unmet expectations.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#31. This is the secret to satisfaction in anything: doing what gives you life and not trying to live up to others' expectations.
Jeff Goins
#32. Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed.
Patricia McCormick
#33. My life has far exceeded my expectations not because of my own personal efforts or mindset but because of my friends who have enriched my existence
John Paul Warren
#34. Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
Viola Davis
#36. Don't let your past pollute your present and disable you from progressing in the future.
Maddy Malhotra
#37. As pilgrims we effectively slip into the role of our spiritual ancestress and run back and forth between the hills seven times. This symbolises our own quest in this world for whatever we are seeking and God's Mercy which fulfils our quest even beyond our expectations.
Kristiane Backer
#39. We as human being do dream & do expect a lot for what we are not entitled but there comes a phase when we get what we have never expected or dreamt of ... So, Accept every little thing that life offers cause might be this is what we deserve ...
Anonymous
#40. Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.
Paul Murray
#41. In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.
Deepak Chopra
#42. Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace.
John Robbins
#44. The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.
Bryant McGill
#45. Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it that you can patiently wait for him to make your life better, but you won't consider he is patiently waiting for you to be better?
Shannon L. Alder
#46. When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
Patricia Briggs
#47. It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#49. A true friendship is a love without expectations but with fair a share of contribution.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Many Christians live as if salvation is the only reason Jesus died. Christ died so we would die to sin and live to righteousness (1Peter 2:24) This is a life long discipline that we must exercise every moment. His marvelous grace does not excuse us from His expectations of holy living.
William Branks
#51. Life has no limits. We are limited by our expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#52. 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
#53. I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.
Josh Turner
#54. Life is a ripoff when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it.
Werner Erhard
#55. People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#56. She'd been living in a prison since the day she'd been born, even after leaving her mother, a prison of fear and shame and lowered expectations, and she'd been so accustomed to her circumscribed life that she had not recognized the bars.
Dean Koontz
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
Bear Grylls
#61. Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.
Julianne Donaldson
#62. I hope you do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life.
Julianne Donaldson
#63. What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a script for a play of our lives that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our minds we disengage or pout.
Holly Sprink
#64. It really is a shame more movies aren't like real life. Maybe then we wouldn't have such high expectations and feel let down by our own existence so much.
Amber L. Johnson
#65. Living is a constant process of debunking our romantic notions of how our personal life will unfold. Reality oftentimes fails to meet a person's glamorous expectations.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#66. No buts, no excuses. Live life to your expectations, not anyone else's.
Komal Kant
#67. 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
#69. We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.
William Hazlitt
#71. If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.
Mark W. Boyer
#72. Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain
You never know when it will end, don't let a moment pass in vain ...
In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,
I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained ...
Mehek Bassi
#73. Life is so full of rough edges - small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you're naked and alone.
Alexis Hall
#74. 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
#75. Know that tomorrow will bring clarity where before was only fog. In the final summation, it is not other's expectations that slay us, but our over compensatory reactions in regard
C.B. Smith
#76. In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
Jeff Bridges
#77. Having no expectations for some people in your life can be depressing, if not devastating. But with others, it's what is necessary. The hard part is not just figuring out which one applies, but accepting it.
Sarah Dessen
#78. Change is inevitable, continuous, and constant. Expectations of anything or anyone remaining the same can only lead to struggles and hardships.
Willing Change
Jane Collins
#79. Your life is not a result of your potential, skills or desires,
but of your consistent expectations and actions, which largely flow from your values and beliefs.
Christopher Babson
#80. I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.
Bill Watterson
#81. I cannot imagine a sentence more severe than a person limited not by his or her own abilities but by the opinions and expectations of others. And having been made to organize in such a way, comes the remuneration, but no penance or escape.
Noorilhuda
#82. Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#83. I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.
Robin Thicke
#84. I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
Q-Tip
#85. Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.
Brad Meltzer
#86. Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Sometimes my entire life has felt like one long exercise in lowering my expectations.
Melissa DeCarlo
#88. Uh ... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest in following. Created expectations that I was not cut-out to match. Disappointed virtually all of my readers subsequently. But I like what I've done, and I stand by it all.
Alex Garland
#90. To find fulfillment, nourishment, and joy, serve others with kindness and without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Happy are those who expect nothing; they won't be disappointed
Abel
#92. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.
Leo Tolstoy
#93. Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#94. God usually meets us at our level of expectancy. That's why, in many ways, your expectations will set the boundaries for your life. Jesus said, According to your faith ... be it done to you.
Joel Osteen
#95. As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.
Julie Murphy
#96. Entering into the flow of abundance begins when exceeding expectations becomes a way of life.
Robin Crow
#97. Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow,
Caroline Myss
#98. I've never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn't feel right or isn't going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.
Fatima Robinson
#99. Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.
Jim Butcher
#100. [ ... ] What's wrong with her?"
"Chronic competence, I should guess. She's been so successful in life that she has unrealistic expectations of others.
Brandon Sanderson
