Top 80 Quotes About Too Much Expectations
#1. I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.
Kim Cattrall
#2. Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws
Norhafsah Hamid
#3. I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.
Maggie Stiefvater
#4. 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
#5. The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#6. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony De Mello
#7. Just as you would when making a new work of art, don't ask for help or seek the judgment of others. You don't want to be subjected to another person's limitations or expectations.
Jackie Battenfield
#8. Expectations are dangerous things. They've probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name.
Seanan McGuire
#9. We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
Mae Jemison
#11. The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#12. I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything.
Richard Gere
#13. We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
Charles Kennedy
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#17. Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we [filmmakers] made.
Tom Hanks
#18. 'Wild at Heart' created a set of expectations maybe, partly, on my part, certainly on my publisher's part, but also in the world out there, that my next books would be as remarkable.
John Eldredge
#19. There is greatness in everyone.
Look within yourself and discover your greatness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#21. That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.
S.A. Tawks
#23. Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.
David Eagleman
#24. All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.
Iyanla Vanzant
#25. Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize.
Ellen Hopkins
#26. What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?
Lysa TerKeurst
#27. If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all.
William Shakespeare
#28. It's scary when it's real. When it's not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.
Jenny Han
#29. Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.
Tony Robbins
#30. Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.
James E. Faust
#31. 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
#32. Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.
Todd Whitaker
#34. Failure in training identifies weaknesses so as to prevent them in the field, because as the common saying goes in the tactical community, "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training." We live by that code.
Gary J. Byrne
#35. Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.
Robert Fripp
#36. When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.
Mason Cooley
#37. What takes the place of the strict rules of the Strict Father model is clarity of expectations and empathy. What takes the place of reward and punishment is interdependence, communication, and a true desire to remain affectionately connected to those you live with. F
George Lakoff
#38. Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth.
Balroop Singh
#39. He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs
Alice Hoffman
#40. We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations ... Lord, we come with great expectations.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#41. Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
Samuel Johnson
#42. We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
Norm MacDonald
#43. To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.
Robin Crow
#44. But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.
Siri Hustvedt
#45. By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rob ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectations.
Russell Kyle
#47. Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you're good, you'll reset that expectation again
Seth Godin
#48. Other people may not have had high expectations for me ... but I had high expectations for myself.
Shannon Miller
#49. This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.
Steven Squyres
#50. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner ...
Teju Cole
#51. Every time you give away love without any expectations, you become richer.
Debasish Mridha
#52. The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.
Jenny Eclair
#53. A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
Oprah Winfrey
#54. GREAT SECRET Whenever I'm learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.
James Marcus Bach
#55. Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.
Lionel Suggs
#56. Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.
Terry Tempest Williams
#57. People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.
Charmian Hussey
#58. Issues arise not from expecting too much from people, but too little.
Robert J. Braathe
#59. It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.
Steve Case
#60. 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
#61. What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.
William John Wills
#62. 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
#63. I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.
Jeff Lindsay
#64. But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
David Baldacci
#65. We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.
Jane Jacobs
#66. We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.
Chris Hodges
#67. 'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
Felix Dennis
#68. I don't really care too much about Valentine's Day ... I've never had a valentine or anything. I've always just spent it with my friends, so I don't really have much expectation for Valentine's Day.
Emma Roberts
#69. There is too much at stake to chance rocking the boat by holding on to highly inflated expectations. Keeping our relationships intact and pretending they're successful, even if they aren't, is the price we must pay to harbor our deepest secrets.
Sarah Jo Smith
#70. Thus, we may observe, it is usual with God to smite us in those very comforts which stole away too much of the love and delight of our souls from God; to cross us in those things from which we raised up too great expectations of comfort.
John Flavel
#71. It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides
#72. He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.
Anne Frasier
#73. When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.
Sunday Adelaja
#74. So, before we go too much further, now is a good chance to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, we are all a little guilty of sometimes living someone else's aspirations for us instead of our own. And this is a great time to say 'No more!' to living out of fear and other people's expectations.
Bear Grylls
#75. Don't expect too much from me, cos i might not meet up to your expectations, don't underestimate me, cos i just might do the unexpected, don't expect the truth from me always cos am human, and don't even try to judge me, cos you have not gone trough half of what av been trough
Odeyale Opeyemi
#76. Oscar did not know what he was supposed to be feeling right now, what all the adults behind him would be expecting him to feel. He did not even know what he was, in fact, feeling. Except, whatever it was, it was a lot. Too much. More than bodies could hold.
Anne Ursu
#77. I don't know. I try not to think about it too much. I'm perfectly satisfied with my life. I think unhappiness comes from unfulfilled expectations." "So the less you expect from life . . ." "No. It's not like that. I just try to be happy and not wish I could do more.
Kasie West
#78. Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life..
Shivam Singh
#79. Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did
a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down?
Christie Craig
#80. Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.
Barbara Ehrenreich