Quotes About Expectations

The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

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

The secret to happiness is low expectations.

Attachment and Expectations are the two biggest killer elements of happiness in everyone's life.Learn the art to monitor and control these killers to bring happiness back in your LIFE!!!

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.

They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.

Aim for happiness because if you keep looking to reach perfection, you're never going to appreciate anything.

Unhappiness is the resultant of what you desire and happiness of what you don't.

If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

Our Father expects you to learn how to obtain that divine help by exercising faith in Him and His Holy Son, Jesus Christ.

The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.

The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL."? Bob Proctor

I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history...

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.