Quotes About Expectations

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.

My favorite definition of fear is: False Expectations Appearing Real

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

That's my biggest fear – disappointing those people who look up to me.

One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.