Quotes About Expectations

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

The customer is never wrong.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.

I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.