Quotes About Fulfilling Expectations

#1. Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Stephen Covey

#2. pessimism works because it's self-fulfilling: if you're a slacker with low expectations, they'll probably be met.

Peter Thiel

#3. Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling.

Vern Law

#4. Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. Having five cats around the house helps me have no expectations. They are not goal-fulfilling creatures in any human sense. There is little one can expect of a cat.

Clarice Bryan

#6. The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

Robert Silverberg

#7. I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Paul O'Grady

#8. Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.

Irving Townsend

#9. I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#10. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song.

Alain De Botton

#11. Dare for a greater life, you will get it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

Napoleon Hill

#13. First they applaud you. Now you have become VICTIM. Just to get their applause, you will lie more and more. You will start fulfilling their expectations and you will become more and more unreal. This is a vicious cycle.

Osho

#14. I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

Alice Walker

#15. Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.

Sriveena Dhagavkar

#16. There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

Christopher Peterson

#17. 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

#18. The public always wants to be told.

Edwin Lefevre

#19. My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#20. 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