Quotes About Expectations

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.

While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations, just be the best you can be

The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

Keep your chin up. No one expected you to save the world, otherwise you would have been born wearing a cape and tights. Just do the best you can.

The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn't Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.

If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

Everybody wanna be a super dad and the best dad ever, but sometimes, I'm just realizing that I'm not perfect.

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.