Quotes About Expectations Of Yourself

#1. You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

Mark Twight

#2. I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure in the task. If you don't, you will drive yourself off a cliff because your fortunes will rise and fall, and if you identify too closely with that, you really will go insane.

Sarah Ruhl

#3. She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself

Miriam Toews

#4. You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

Brian Tracy

#5. If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

Hale Irwin

#6. It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.

Roopleen

#7. But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

Uma Thurman

#8. With expectations, when you throw that stuff out there, when you put a bunch of pressure on yourself to reach those goals, you don't do anything different. You just keep working to get better.

Chuck Pagano

#9. You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere.

Antony Hegarty

#10. Sexual agency is about being able to define your sexuality by the decisions you yourself make, and NOT by the perceptions, expectations or opinions of others.

Miya Yamanouchi

#11. I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

Charlotte Eriksson

#12. When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.

Joel Coen

#13. One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.

Robin Meade

#14. If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you'll keep resentment far away.

Confucius

#15. You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.

Mike Krzyzewski

#16. Free yourself from the expectations of having to be right with the wrong information.

Linda Deir

#17. Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do and what you should be - it's only a silly idea that passes through your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#18. It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them yourself.

Jay Parini

#19. You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..

Alma Alexander

#20. Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.

John Wooden

#21. The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.

Dianna Hardy

#22. The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

Ashwin Sanghi

#23. Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.

Ellen Airgood

#24. High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

James Wolcott

#25. Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

Freddy Adu

#27. There is greatness in everyone.
Look within yourself and discover your greatness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating

Wayne Dyer

#29. This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

John Bevere

#30. If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

Anthony Liccione

#31. 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

#32. After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.

Hector Elizondo

#33. 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

#34. Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life.

Steven Cuoco

#35. The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

Garrison Wynn

#36. I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

Alex Gibney

#37. When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say, "I am free to write the worst junk in the world."

Natalie Goldberg

#38. If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Norman Vincent Peale

#39. It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#40. The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

Mark Victor Hansen

#41. we can learn a lot from a tree; she
gives so much without expecting
anything in return. oxygen, shade,
fruit, resources. she is proud of her
roots and tough to tear down.
try to be more like a tree.

give without expectations, be
proud, be strong.

JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon

#42. Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.

Seth Godin

#43. Are you allowing your own expectations to hinder you from freely expressing yourself? Is your idea of the right way keeping you from your best way? Are you too distracted to show up? Are you living like a programmer instead of a poet?

Emily P. Freeman

#44. Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates ... and yourself.

Bob Cox