Raise Expectations Quotes

#1. To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

Robin Crow

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

Ralph Marston

#3. I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Tommy Lee Jones

#4. 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

#5. Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse.

Shilpa Sandesh

#6. So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

Tim Vine

#7. I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

Red Smith

#8. Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.

Norm MacDonald

#9. Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest.

Gilbert Murray

#10. He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire

Cinda Williams Chima

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

Garrison Wynn

#12. You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

Mark Twight

#13. Three taps means "Are you alive?" Two means "Yes," one "No.

Nicole Krauss

#14. Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

Honore De Balzac

#15. sStip settling for someone who doesn't meet your expectations and find someone whom already holds the characteristics you're looking for.

Nikki Rowe

#16. Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

Paula Scher

#17. Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.

Charles Krauthammer

#19. See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

John Sladek

#20. We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

Samuel Johnson

#21. Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.

Mary Louisa Molesworth

#22. The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

Paula Scher

#23. Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

Libba Bray

#24. If you don't get disappointed when you raise your expectations; you don't get appointments from where your mind is not!

Bayode Ojo

#25. Don't let truth and grace forsake one another. If you raise your child with only truth (or your laws), they will never live up to your rules or expectations. No one can fulfill all of the law. On the other hand , if you only give grace to your children, they will run wild without restraint.

Neil Kennedy

#26. Pray, what's the nature of his trouble?" Prudence asked solicitously.
"Oh, cursed bad news, my boy. That old aunt of his from whom he has expectations has rallied, and they say she'll last another ten years. Poor old Devereux, y'know! Must try and raise his spirits.

Georgette Heyer

#27. In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

Joe Baca

#28. To forgive is a gift of God that permits us to let go of our past hurts.

Jean Vanier

#29. It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

Thomas Sprat

#30. The two-year note has become the Treasury market's gauge of expectations regarding when and how quickly the Fed will raise rates.

Anonymous

#31. What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

Muriel Rukeyser