Quotes About Expectations

If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.

We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?