Setting Yourself Up For Disappointment Quotes

#1. When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Ryan Reynolds

#2. Speaking for the one field which I feel definitely qualified to comment on, I fully believe the animated picture will emerge as one of the greatest mediums, not only of entertainment but also of education.

Walt Disney

#3. home. She would have sat in her armchair on the veranda with a pot of tea and a book. As if nothing had happened, as if the world out there were just as unchanged as her comfortable study.

Maxim Leo

#4. I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. When someone focuses on the expectation of accolades rather than the enjoyment of the work process, that person is setting up himself for disappointment.

Steve Hickner

#6. The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.

Pico Iyer

#7. Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

Milton Friedman

#8. Reality is what you can get away with.

Robert Anton Wilson

#9. To be cheerful in this world one must have a strong sense of reality.

Marty Rubin

#10. It's always just a matter of what someone is willing to see and what someone is willing to ignore. I think we are all guilty of overlooking things if it suits our own agenda. But whenever we do, we are always setting ourselves up for disappointment.

Jenny Mollen

#11. There can be only one purpose for relationships-and for all of life: to be and to decide Who You Really Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

#12. We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

Shane Claiborne

#13. Unwinding a habit that you have allowed to entangle you can be difficult. But the power is in you. Do not despair. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that 'all beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.' You can resist temptation!

Boyd K. Packer

#14. She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

Thomas Hardy

#15. I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life's many disappointments.

Andrew Levkoff

#16. Great depth of beingness and creativity often come with great woundedness.

Kathryn V. White

#17. But I'm also feeling all that I have in my life, which includes what I have lost, as well as the great unknown of what life might still bring me. And it's all too much. The feelings pile up, threatening to crack my chest wide open.

Gayle Forman

#18. To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

Sidney Poitier

#19. I wondered what kind of sexy getup Kaidan would be wearing. Maybe Adam in a loincloth?

Wendy Higgins

#20. I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

Victoria Abril

#21. The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

Paula Cole

#22. We're all bloody inspired - Newt

James Dashner