Top 100 Quotes About High Expectations
#1. My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.
Joseph Altuzarra
#2. We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
Charles Kennedy
#3. As women, we do feel like we have to live up to an expectation, whether it's on camera or going to the market or whatever it is. And the truth of the matter is, that's not always the way it is. We don't always have our high heels on, we don't always have our makeup on.
Jennifer Aniston
#4. You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.
S.A. Tawks
#5. Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.
Todd Whitaker
#6. Other people may not have had high expectations for me ... but I had high expectations for myself.
Shannon Miller
#7. GREAT SECRET Whenever I'm learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.
James Marcus Bach
#8. Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.
Des Browne
#9. But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
Uma Thurman
#10. Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support the emotional well-being and growth of their members combine two almost opposite traits. They combine discipline with spontaneity, rules with freedom, high expectations with unstinting love.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#11. 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
#13. You get an idea what a manager has to go through every day. His is at a very high level. He has situations he has to deal with and the expectations he has to deal with, the personalities he has to deal with. It's a lot.
Joe Girardi
#14. 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
#15. They're like Generation X on steroids. They walk in with high expectations for themselves, their employer, their boss. If you thought you saw a clash when Generation X came into the workplace - that was the fake punch. The haymaker is coming now.
Paul Greenberg
#16. I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
Nathalie Kelley
#17. Any time you sign a big contract, you get in those later years, the expectations are high to play at a high level.
Johnathan Joseph
#18. I hate high expectations because they're hard to beat.
Neal H. Moritz
#19. Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
John F. Akers
#21. I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.
Elisabeth Shue
#22. Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
Jeb Bush
#23. The hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film.
Elisabeth Shue
#24. With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.
Jared Diamond
#25. I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.
John Starks
#26. There was no Twitter when I was in high school, so I can't even imagine the pressures or the expectations of pursuing likes or living life in that kind of mentality.
Tyler Oakley
#27. Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.
Lee Ann Womack
#28. Your life will go only as high as the level of your expectations.
Joyce Meyer
#29. I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#30. I think we need to lift our spirits and have high, lofty expectations for this great country of ours.The new normal of two percent [growth] that the left is saying you can't do anything about is so dangerous for our country.
Jeb Bush
#31. I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me.
Daunte Culpepper
#32. When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.
Jimmy Carter
#33. Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.
Paulo Coelho
#34. My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
Don McLean
#36. 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
#37. I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.
Wentworth Miller
#38. The men buckled on their weapons and started outside amid high expectations, taking care not to leave their backs unguarded
just in case
for Jesus may have said something about brothers, but he made no mention of cousins.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#39. Shadow always had high hopes for haircuts, but they never lived up to his expectations.
After every haircut he looked more or less the same, only with shorter hair.
Neil Gaiman
#40. 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
#41. But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;
Marcel Proust
#42. At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
Amar Bose
#43. I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself.
Chris Hardwick
#44. I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
Mary Decker
#45. 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
#46. If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.
Anthony Hopkins
#47. 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
#48. Hope reliably triumphs over experience. It's always very tempting to console ourselves with an apparently very reasonable thought: the reason it didn't work out this time was not that the expectations were too high, but that we directed them onto the wrong person. We
The School Of Life
#49. Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go ... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.
Stephen Holden
#50. Debatable how long the seduction took. The smarter the girl, the swifter these things go. Physical forwardness as intellectual high-wire act: the pleasure not of pleasure but of performance and revenge against the retainer, the flute, the stack of expectations.
Lauren Groff
#51. A lot of times the expectations of you are so high that no matter what you do you are never going to be able to live up to those expectations. So you better go out and do the best you can and enjoy it.
John Elway
#52. You can accomplish anything with students if you set high expectations for behavior and performance by which you yourself abide.
Harry K. Wong
#53. The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.
Reggie Bush
#54. I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
Ann Richards
#55. I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.
Stephen Colbert
#56. PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF THEM
John C. Maxwell
#57. When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations ... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
Hannah Kent
#58. I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.
Vinny Testaverde
#59. Great bosses and world-class organizations hire motivated people, set high expectations, and give their people room to become remarkable.
Seth Godin
#60. I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.
J. J. Hardy
#61. On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.
Ellis Hobbs
#62. It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.
Lev Grossman
#63. America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence.
Jeff Greene
#64. Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.
Paul Pierce
#65. John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.
Caroline Kennedy
#66. Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
Gaines Adams
#67. The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure
You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.
William Goldman
#68. I do have high expectations for Alex Riley. He seems athletic, articulate and intelligent. Only time will tell how far he goes, but Riley has bonafide potential. FCW did a nice job of preparing Alex for WWE. Alex's future success is largely up to Alex.
Jim Ross
#69. High expectations is the key to everything.
Sam Walton
#70. Powerful Leaders have high expectations by faith that each day will be the first day of the rest of their life; what are you expecting?
Michael Walker
#71. So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
Johnny Bench
#73. The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.
Robert Neelly Bellah
#74. We tend to live down to other people's expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more difficult to obtain approval of people who hold us in high regard than to accept the lower standards that other people hold of us.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#75. Keep your expectations high,
Not because you are better than anyone else, but because you have experienced enough pain; to realise, you won't settle anymore.
Nikki Rowe
#76. A vision from God will motivate you. A vision for God will keep you on track. A vision from God will keep you moving and motivate you to press on to the mark of the high calling of God. This is why we need to have a vision. God's provision is directly linked to your expectation.
Todd Bentley
#77. If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.
George W. Bush
#78. I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.
Gisele Bundchen
#79. Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations ...
Jim Harbaugh
#80. She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.
Morris Dees
#81. Do not lower your expectations in order to avoid hurt. Instead, keep your expectations high and learn to tackle with disappointments.
Dhaval Gajera
#83. Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.
Marty Turco
#84. Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Greg Anderson
#85. So to some extent he [Barack Obama] is a victim of the expectations and the high hopes that we experienced.
Michael Fullilove
#86. Copywriting basically consists of taking something dreadful, putting it in a box with a shiny ribbon, and presenting it to someone. Any disappointment the recipient has upon opening the box is entirely due to their own high expectations and therefore their fault.
David Thorne
#87. I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.
Scott Snyder
#88. 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
#89. Manson didn't 'kill the sixties', as some have suggested. They committed suicide, ODed on excess, high expectations, and a belief that in getting rid of all repression - what I've called 'giving way to strange forces' - some pure, natural soul would emerge. They were wrong.
Gary Lachman
#90. New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#91. With success comes expectation and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.
Rory McIlroy
#92. The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.
Mireille Guiliano
#93. Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
Lionel Shriver
#94. The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
Jack Levine
#95. I don't think intimidated is the word. I definitely get excited by it. I don't want to let anybody down. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100 percent perfect. I do feel it when people hold me to high expectations.
Nicki Minaj
#96. The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.
Neil Strauss
#97. I knew her a long time. The truth was we both had certain expectations of each other. In the end, I suppose they were too high.
Kathleen Tessaro
#98. It's always better if you can keep the bar low, and then exceed the expectation. When it's high, that makes the job even tougher. But, I think we're up for the challenge. We're ready.
Will Packer
#99. 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
#100. The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?
Gene Stallings
