Quotes About Having Low Expectations

#1. The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

Warren Buffett

#2. The one thing I've always had going for me was people's low expectations. Nobody ever expects a whole hell of a lot from me.

Chris Isaak

#3. I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

Trent Dilfer

#4. She walked, and with each step she let another inch of the long furl of her expectations go. The place itself was like a steady hand, a low voice, a very old person who'd seen too much to get overexcited anymore. Stop now a minute, it said. Stop searching.

Ellen Airgood

#5. When reentering society and risking rejection, the library is a good place to start. They have low expectations. I love the library. Also church. Both have to take you in.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#6. When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so I feel like we appreciate it all the more to have all this good fortune come our way, which we hadn't really been planning.

Ty Burrell

#7. We've been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn't. ... I want to live in a world where we don't have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.

Stella Young

#8. The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.

Tamala Jones

#9. The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

Allan Bloom

#10. Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#11. I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Many consumerist economies stay afloat by manipulating the low self-esteem of their consumers and by creating spiritual expectations through material means.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#13. I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

Michael Gove

#14. As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#15. If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a prejudicism of low expectations.

Andrew Forrest

#16. I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations.

Darynda Jones

#17. Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.

Ken Blanchard

#18. One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'

Gerald Chertavian

#19. No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Donella Meadows

#20. I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

Peter Thiel

#21. It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Pamela Anderson

#22. I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.

Anne Lamott

#23. I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything

Anthony Hopkins

#24. Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities

Erik Weihenmayer

#25. Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.

Elaine S. Dalton

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

Wayne Dyer

#27. low income does not mean low expectations

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#28. I'm the master of low expectations.

George W. Bush

#29. You want to know the secret to raising good kids?"
"What's that? asked Thomas.
"High expectations."
Thomas laughed. "Alright, well what's the secret to a happy marriage?"
Clyde smiled back, but his face started to fall, and he chose his words carefully. " ... Low expectations.

Chris Nicolaisen

#30. He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rises by surprise; and is almost always doubled by being unlooked for.

Jeremy Collier

#31. When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#32. They'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexul and Had Low Expectations.

Jace Herondale

#33. Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.

Behdad Sami

#34. But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

Robert Sternberg