Quotes About Expectations

Disappointment comes when reality falls short of our expectations. But nothing falls short of God's expectations because He knows everything.

People don't expect their leaders to be perfect, but they do expect them to be honest. If

Ben Franklin quipped, Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall receive it. Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

Few things push a person like a deadline and an audience. That didn't mean that I always reached my goals. But I found that if I told others about what I intended to do, I worked harder, and I worked in such a way that I wouldn't be ashamed of my efforts even if everyone was watching them.

One of the most important things you can do as a leader is make sure you and your organization are delivering what you promised. The question I ask to make an assessment of this is "Did we exceed expectations?" This ensures my future success and that of my organization. The future is dim professionally for anyone who doesn't exceed the expectations of customers or clients.

CHARACTER COMMUNICATES CONSISTENCY Leaders without inner strength can't be counted on day after day because their ability to perform changes constantly. NBA great Jerry West commented, "You can't get too much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good." If your people don't know what to expect from you as a leader, at some point they won't look to you for leadership.

PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF THEM

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asserted, "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." Don't let your doubts cause your expector to expire.

GIVE UP ON THE NOTION OF EVER ARRIVING AT PERFECTION.

3. The Unrealistic Expectation Trap For some reason, many people think everything in life should be easy, and when they find out that achievement takes effort, they give up. But success takes hard work.

Oh, how wonderful and rich and strange life can be when you stop playing out the roles that your parents and their friends wrote out for you.

Artemis was the sort of man who frequently proposed marriage, but at thirty he still had no wife.

Do you realize what that means? Do you know what that feels like? To live for fifteen years on promises and expectations and loans and credits in hotels that aren't fit to live in, never for a single day to be out of debt, and yet to pretend, to feel that every year, every winter, every job, every meeting is going to be the one. To live like this for fifteen years and then to realize that it's never going to end. Do you know what that feels like?

Here she barked out her greetings in Italian, anxious to disassociate herself from the horseless American cowboys and above all from her own kind, the truly lost and unwanted, who move like leaves around the edges of the world, gathering only long enough to wait in line and see if there is any mail

The problem was that I carried around with me a tendency to feel that other people's respect for me would vanish if what I did was second rate. And while I accept that this "perfectionism" is likely to stimulate the production of better work, it doesn't, unfortunately, go hand in hand with a relaxed and happy attitude to life.

but now I began to notice odd moments that suggested he was not the brightest lighthouse on the coastline. For instance, he once got very cross during assembly because he felt the boys had become lazy, and so he demanded that every single boy in the school should improve his ranking in class in the course of the next fortnight.

Mrs. Richards: Girl, there's no paper in my room. Why don't you check these things? That's what you're being paid for, isn't it? Polly: We don't put it in the rooms. Mrs. Richards: What? Polly: Well, we keep it in the lounge. Mrs. Richards: [aghast] In the lounge? Polly: I'll get you some. Do you want plain ones or ones with our address on it? Mrs. Richards: Address on it? Polly: How many sheets? Well, how many are you going to use? Mrs. Richards: Manager!

It's hard growing up in a world where you never feel like you're good enough.

Expectations hurt, always expect the unexpected, life is a surprise, live it, learn from it, never let yourself be fooled by the world.

What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be.

How come when you're single, nobody wants you, but the minute you enter a relationship you're a hot item.

Every relationship has ups and downs, you should never expect perfection from somebody.

There's nothing worse than putting all your effort into doing everything right for someone you love, and having it end up all wrong.

Don't expect your girl to play her role, when you have other girls auditioning for her part.