Quotes About Defying Expectations

#1. Surprise comes from defying expectations.

Seth Godin

#2. Acting in stereotypically feminine ways makes it difficult for women to reach for the same opportunities as men, but defying expectations and reaching for those opportunities leads to being judged as undeserving and selfish.

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

Larry David

#4. This then is injustice; and on the other hand when the trader, the auxiliary, and the guardian each do their own business, that is justice, and will make the city just. I agree with you. We

Plato

#5. Shall we call coincidence what God calls providence?

Beth Moore

#6. In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.

Murasaki Shikibu

#7. As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.

Burton Cummings

#8. I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.

Jayne Meadows

#9. But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

Jodi Picoult

#10. I think the deepest belief I have ... is that love really is the answer to all problems.

Jack Canfield

#11. The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

Harriet Martineau

#12. When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

Christopher Walken

#13. I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

Gwendoline Christie

#14. I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.

Gillian Jacobs

#15. Well, if the kid screws up, then I'll just have to kick his ass.

Dante Alighieri

#16. How a little love and good company improves a woman.

George Farquhar

#17. Anyone who claims they have a genius for war should be regarded as the greatest of fools. For the successful conduct of war is an exercise in the management of folly.

Anthony Ryan

#18. I just think it's amazing that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.

Andy Andrews

#19. I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Alan Rickman