Quotes About Expectations

I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.

Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.

One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!

The next time you think something's too good to be true, remember - so's electricity and sewerage!

Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life.

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Normalness leads to sadness.

It's always your assumptions about you, about others, about future that make reality worse than it actually is.

Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

Peace begins when expectations end.

Do not presume that richness or poorness will bring you happiness.

Never reward a solder for doing whats expected

Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness.

When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results.

Life will be perfect if your expectations and responses to events are humble and perfect.

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?

Querida hermana: suponéis que Brasil es un trono de oro, pero es un yugo de hierro.»

Set the bar high. Resist the easy button. Choose "mastery" over "easy" and know that great accomplishments don't come from low expectations.

Be realistic. You want to set the bar high but not so high that your goals are merely impossible dreams. Don't ever settle for less, but be realistic when setting the bar high, especially when it comes to timelines and deadlines. In most cases, there are no such things as unrealistic goals, just unrealistic timetables for their achievement.