Quotes About Expectations

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.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

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!

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and its a real drag.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?

When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

The office' is a cemetery of dreams.

Sometimes Dreams take time to come true, But it hurts when it comes true and you are not with that person with who you dreamed about it

Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't think that way, you're forced to think that way. Everyone is trying to subconsciously out-do everyone else.

I don't like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

I'm only interested in being better than everyone else thought you could be.