Quotes About Expectations

Its hard to be yourself in a world that wants you to be like them.

Do not live for the expectations of people around you. Live for yourself, for your dreams, for your happiness

I may have trust issues, but some people seem to have an issue with the responsibility of being trusted.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be- and when they're not, we cry.

You never truly get mad at someone you love. You get disappointed.

What gets me mad? It's not even the fact that you're not mine. It's the fact that you led me on for all that time.

If your best attribute is being a great lover in the bedroom then You can't get upset when nobody wants to take it past that level with you.

At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.

The person you need to be loved by should love you for who you are, not for what they want you to be.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be

I ought then to have been happy; I was not. It struck me that my mother had just made a first concession which must have been painful to her, that it was a first step down from the ideal she had formed for me, and that for the first time she, with all her courage, had to confess herself beaten.

The question isn't, as for Hamlet, to be or not to be, but to be one of them or not to be one of them. You're one, my uncle Charlus is one. What d'you expect? I've never liked all that, it's not my fault.

Em suma, minha tia exigia, ao mesmo tempo em que a aprovassem em seu regime, que a lamentassem por seus padecimentos e que a tranquilizassem quanto ao futuro.

My mother, torn between her love for my father and her hope that I might turn out to have brains, preserved an impartiality which she expressed by silence.

When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.

I go to great lengths to be a good mother. I'm constantly revising my attitudes, which detracts from the spontaneity, and I will be judged for it in the future, there's no doubt. You always do badly as a mother, if not because of this, then because of that. The guilt will always be there, no matter what.

I recently turned forty-two, a complicated stage of life. You're young, but not very, you're not elderly, but you are a bit old. Neither fish nor fowl. It's the transition from one thing to the other, the real start of deterioration. Sometimes I feel like I want to have aged already, to be an old woman who has resolved all her expectations.

El libertinaje femenino paga costos mientras el masculino cobra méritos.

Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.

It was one of those rare occasions when my low expectations of others went unfulfilled.

Either you're going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.

The Four Keys of Great Managers: 1. "When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination." 2. "When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps." 3. "When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses." 4. "When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.