Quotes About Expectations

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure-that you're only as good as your most recent collection.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

His thoughts flicked between the confidence of the Anyala Stone, the expectations of his world, and, the certainty of his failure.