Top 100 Your Expectations Quotes
#1. Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize.
Ellen Hopkins
#2. Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth.
Balroop Singh
#3. 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
#4. Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
Ralph Marston
#5. Gestalt Prayer
I do my thing and you do yours.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
And if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#6. Alice interrupted. No tears, no secrets. I want the life I'm meant to have, Etta. It's as simple as that. My father always says that the way to truly live is to do so without expectations or fear hanging over you, affecting your choices ...
Alexandra Bracken
#7. 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
#8. I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.
Karl Pilkington
#9. Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley
#10. Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.
Swami Satchidananda
#11. You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.
Seth
#13. I hope you do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life.
Julianne Donaldson
#14. Let's have each other then. My body and your body. No expectations. No questions.
Pepper Winters
#16. Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams.
Meb Keflezighi
#17. I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
Ken Burns
#18. Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it's better. Sometimes it's worse. And sometimes it's just different. It's not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to turn out. Just go with the flow and keep your eyes and ears peeled.
Abby Rosmarin
#19. The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You're grateful for crumbs.
Asher
Katy Regnery
#20. You cannot win anymore even if you do your best. Because everyone is doing their best. In order to win, you have to do more than you best.
M.F. Moonzajer
#21. Live simply", she said. "Don't expect so much out of life. You can only be disappointed when your expectations are not met so strive for the best but keep your expectations simple." I
Donald Murray
#22. Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.
Tony Robbins
#23. If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation.
Tony Robbins
#24. The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
Tamara Tunie
#25. You are destiny for greatness.
Your future is in the hands of the Lord.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. Your value is based on how much and how deeply you can love others without any expectations of a return.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Life will be perfect if your expectations and responses to events are humble and perfect.
Debasish Mridha
#28. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception ... you see what is, where most people see what they expect.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#29. When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
Chris Martin
#30. Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.
Leon Brown
#31. Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
Sam Walton
#32. When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.
Gabrielle Roth
#33. When you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.
Richard Carlson
#34. You may have seen some good days in the past, but God doesn't want to give you an encore; He wants to exceed your wildest expectations!
Jamie Larbi
#35. God usually meets us at our level of expectancy. That's why, in many ways, your expectations will set the boundaries for your life. Jesus said, According to your faith ... be it done to you.
Joel Osteen
#36. Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates ... and yourself.
Bob Cox
#37. While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.
Lauren Mackler
#38. We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
Shigeru Yoshida
#39. I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure in the task. If you don't, you will drive yourself off a cliff because your fortunes will rise and fall, and if you identify too closely with that, you really will go insane.
Sarah Ruhl
#40. In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
Jeff Bridges
#41. You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.
Lisa Kleypas
#42. My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.
Laurie Graham
#43. A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal
#44. Your life is made up of your dreams and your realities, your expectations and your possibilities.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Put your expectations on God, not on people.
Joyce Meyer
#46. Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.
Wolfgang Puck
#47. It's all right to have expectations in marriage. Just remember to keep them at the feet of Jesus, not at the feet of your spouse
Ngina Otiende
#48. I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.
Lupe Fiasco
#49. Change is inevitable, continuous, and constant. Expectations of anything or anyone remaining the same can only lead to struggles and hardships.
Willing Change
Jane Collins
#50. People live up to your expectations, not their potential.
Stephen Young
#51. Admit it or not, you care about what others think about you. People who declare they don't are more likely pretentious. You cannot stop caring. It is in your nature. But it is absolutely wrong to live your life for others, to make your decisions based on other people's perceptions and expectations.
Grace Scott
#52. You've got me confused with one of those women who needs a ring on her finger to feel complete. I don't put those kinds of expectations on men. And I'd say I'm sorry things didn't work out between you and Hugh, but based on your current amount of crazy, I'd say he dodged a bullet.
Kristen Painter
#54. I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what's in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be brave. We learn to be wise. We struggle to know ourselves and voice what we want.
Leigh Bardugo
#55. For the longest time all I cared about was getting through the day. When your every breath was an effort, that quickly became the extent of your expectations.
A Meredith Walters
#56. People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of your expectations of the organization and show people why it is relevant and how it works in specific ways.
Douglas Conant
#57. Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
Les Brown
#58. Never ever feel inferior because of the colour of your skin. Great is your soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#59. The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
Zig Ziglar
#60. We live in a cruel world, Isabel," he says, without looking at me. "I am only a man, and will not always live up to your expectations. And to me, that is a painful reality. But we must never be cruel to one another. Let there be peace between us.
Sylvia Bambola
#61. Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.
Azar Nafisi
#62. Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding.
Sara Coleridge
#63. You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.
Jesse Williams
#64. When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.
Dan Millman
#66. Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes when you let go of a broken dream, another one gently takes its place. Be aware of what is, not what you would like to be, taking place.
Melody Beattie
#68. Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.
Matt Groening
#69. Don't expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people.
Debasish Mridha
#70. There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
Carl Hagelin
#71. It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them yourself.
Jay Parini
#72. The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).
Laozi
#73. People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best.
John C. Maxwell
#74. If your body was well, you expected it to perform for you, excellently, consistently. If your body was not, your expectations were different.
Hanya Yanagihara
#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. Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.
Jeffrey Thomas
#77. I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
Bat For Lashes
#78. Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.
Ken Blanchard
#79. Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.
Mary Louisa Molesworth
#80. You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable" responses or you can listen to the sweet madness in your bones.
Tama J. Kieves
#81. Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran outside to play, then you might be a genius. But you do not and you are not. You're a hole where knowledge goes to sleep.
Weike Wang
#82. Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it that you can patiently wait for him to make your life better, but you won't consider he is patiently waiting for you to be better?
Shannon L. Alder
#83. The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.
Ashwin Sanghi
#84. Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
Leo Buscaglia
#85. How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!
Alexandre Dumas
#87. 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
#88. It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion the frustration will become smaller. A day will come when there will be no expectation; then you will never come across any frustration.
Rajneesh
#89. It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.
Fulton J. Sheen
#90. Please reduce the expectation in your tone when asking me how my day is going.
Dov Davidoff
#91. The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.
Denis Waitley
#92. Follow your dreams as long as you live! Never be afraid to go out on the limb to live up to your expectations. Always do things your way and Have Fun!
Picabo Street
#93. Jesus' love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.
Todd Stocker
#94. The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.
Ben Goldacre
#95. An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful.
Rajneesh
#96. That being in love can change almost anything: from your expectations and limitations to your very life plans. It's a completely unpredictable force. And how it operates within any particular relationship is a total mystery to anyone outside of that relationship.
Zack Love
#97. I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.
Rachel Cohn
#98. When you expect something from your self and your own self disappoints you ... this is what i call a real disappointment . The worst disappointments comes from in-within.
Sameh Elsayed
#99. There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.
Joe Swanberg
#100. Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.
India Knight
