Quotes About Lower Expectations

#1. Lower expectations and increase appreciation.

Elle Dawson

#2. The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.

Dave Cullen

#3. We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

Alan Armstrong

#4. Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Max Lucado

#5. We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.

Ben Carson

#6. Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

Simone Elkeles

#7. I want everyone to stop telling me to lower my expectations.

Tracy Guzeman

#8. No wonder such a big part of growing old is learning to lower one's expectations, only we call that maturity and wisdom so as not to sound too defeatist. When you are young you demand ecstasy; when you are old you settle for anything short of agony.

Jonathan Hull

#9. They are the ships, and you are the wind. You do no lower yourself to their rules or expectations. You blow in whatever direction you feel is needed and leave them with no choice but to oblige.

Elise Kova

#10. And they know I didn't hold expectations for them like I do for myself. But I also tell them I'm not going to lower the expectations I do have for them because we're playing Division II.

Cat Osterman

#11. No way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.

Christina Romer

#13. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations. Get on with my less-than life. I didn't want to feel better about being still alive. Start compensating.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

Mark Spitz

#15. My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

Heather Bresch

#16. The lower your expectation the easier and happier your life will be

Dee Dee Artner

#17. ...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

Michael R. Solomon

#18. Do not lower your expectations in order to avoid hurt. Instead, keep your expectations high and learn to tackle with disappointments.

Dhaval Gajera

#19. If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations

Jonathan Tropper

#20. I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.

Bill Watterson

#21. 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

#22. Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life. The sky is your limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun and you will shine.

Kwame Alexander

#23. Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Don Roff

#24. So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

Bill Watterson

#25. When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.

M.E. Vaughan

#26. A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Jodi Picoult

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

Garrison Wynn

#28. Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?

Jimmy Fallon

#29. Let me offer this apology. Please excuse this self-indulgent preface. I know what I am doing. I am presenting a series of reasons as to why you should lower your expectations, so that you can be blown away by my sneaky insights about life and work. I am a grown woman. I know my own tricks!

Amy Poehler

#30. I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing ...

Jacob M. Appel

#31. Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

Ralph Marston