Quotes About Expectations

If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.

The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

Success and failure are terrible traps.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.

If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams

Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be?

Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.

Right expectations, from the right people at the right time, that's the art of expecting.

Zero Expectations? What's that? I believe in Smart Expectations.

Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.

Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions

It's time to embrace what is...and let go of what you wanted to happen