Quotes About Expectations

I do think back,' Mom told me, 'on my wonderful headmistress at Brearly, the one who told us we could have everything we wanted.... And then, years later, I went back for a reunion, and I told the headmistress that I, indeed, managed to have it all--a husband, a career, three children--but that I was tired all the time, exhausted in fact. And she said, 'Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

People believe when you're richer you'll be happier,' he said. 'When you focus on the goal you don't commit suicide. But what happens when you get there and it's not what you expect?

If you're prone to social perfectionism, your self-esteem will be dangerously dependent on keeping the roles and responsibilities you believe you have. You'll tend to agree with statements such as "Success means I must work harder to please others." It's not what you expect of yourself. "It's what you think other people expect

When you ask for a frigate, they give you a raft. Ask for sailors, they give you tavern waiters. And if you want breeches, they give you a vest. Benedict Arnold to David Hawley, August 1776 In

Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won't be able to fulfill.

When, as the result of being exposed to luxurious living, people become hard to please, a curious thing happens. Rather than mourning the loss of their ability to enjoy simple things, they take pride in their newly gained inability to enjoy anything but "the best.

It is characteristic of modern outlook that we want quick results.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions today.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Too much of me was lost in the vision of what somebody else wanted me to be.

Three things alone are certain when you venture into a loft: that you will crack your head on a beam at least twice, that you will get cobwebs draped over your face, and that you will not find what you went looking for.

I don't know," said the papa. "We shall just have to keep on and see. Perhaps when they meet the Prince and Princess we shall find out. I don't suppose a boy would fall in love with a boy." "No," said the niece; "but he might want to go off with him and have fun, or something." "That's true," said the papa. "We've got to all watch out.

That's what makes me really think that women can never amount to anything in art. They keep all their appointments, and fulfil all their duties just as if they didn't know anything about art.

be suspicious of any [theological] position that fulfills all our heart's desires.

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

Women lie about their age men lie about their income.

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

Among respectable people a man who took upon himself the cares and expenses of a family before he had secured a regular trade or profession, or had accumulated some capital, and who allowed his wife to lose caste, and his children to be dirty, ragged, and neglected, would be severely blamed by the public opinion of the community. The

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Normal? Hateful word, normal. No meaning whatsoever.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.