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Quotes About Expectations

Feelings which flourish on illusions, and sicken and die on realities, aren't worth considering.
~ David Lindsay
Needless to say, it was inconceivable that I would be welome in, let alone invited to, their home. It was as well, then, that I did not limit myself only to those places where people might wish me to be.
~ David Liss
Online pornography allows individuals to explore creative sexual possibilities they never knew existed but also creates entirely unrealistic expectations for real life sexual interactions.
~ David M. Buss
Who ever told you that you could work with men?
~ David Mamet
It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
~ David Mamet
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
~ A. B. Simpson
If God had wanted you to wear earrings, he'd have made you a girl.
~ Don Siegelman
When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down.
~ Joshua Harris
Put your expectations on God, not on people.
~ Joyce Meyer
God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
~ Ani DiFranco
If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.
~ Steven Furtick
If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.
~ Jose Mourinho
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
~ J. D. Salinger
I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.
~ Abraham Maslow
Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become.
~ Stephen Kendrick
When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.
~ Russell M. Nelson
...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
~ Francis Chan
God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.
~ Louis Zamperini
How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?
~ Erin O'Connor
You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
All of us can meet God's high expectations.
~ D. Todd Christofferson
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
~ Gertrude Stein