Too Many Expectations Quotes

#1. Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

Dustin Clare

#2. Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

Ville Valo

#3. Sitting at the old patio table she'd cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the trees, like Christmas lights. She felt like part of the hollow around her was filling. She'd come here with too many expectations.

Sarah Addison Allen

#4. I felt the crosscrossing pulls of too many expectations.

Hilary Reyl

#5. Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations.

Gustav Heinemann

#6. We put great expectations on our tomorrows when we truly need to rely on ourselves. Far too many overlook personal action, as a means to get things done. Blame is easily passed if one does not hold themselves accountable.

Jay Long

#7. Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood ... women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.

Wilma Scott Heide

#8. Too many people are expecting me to do things. I don't want to meet anyone's expectations. Be expected. I just want to-be. No explanations necessary. Me. Quiet. Anything more is too risky.

Amy McNamara

#9. 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

#10. People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.

Charmian Hussey

#11. When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

Tony Robbins

#12. But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial, the hopes and expectations (from Requiem for a Hotel /Nekrolog auf ein Hotel,1918)

Stefan Zweig

#13. There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

Cheryl James

#14. No expectations, by the way. I'm not inviting you to, like, a three- day fuck fest or anything.

Elle Kennedy

#15. Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. 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

#17. Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize.

Ellen Hopkins

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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