Quotes About Expectations

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

Don't thank anyone for what you should already have.

I loved him, but I didn't need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.

I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own." The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures.

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

Rules are in every company for everyone to follow. Eh, except salespeople." -- Jeffrey Gitomer

The law is generous. It is lawyers with their angles, hopes, dreams, wild expectations that make the law seem a rigid thing.

We prefer to say that Larry has a problem with tenses. For example, 'our product is available now' might mean it'll be available in a few months or that Larry was thinking about one day developing the product.

like the BMW mechanic who handed Robert Sutton a survey and pleaded for a five on a five-point scale, because otherwise he would get in trouble).

Sadly enough... it is a characteristic of our age, that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much: comfortable, smooth gods.

Harry Potter isn't going to tank because they've replaced the person who plays Quidditch player number four.

What are you worried about, Burke?" "You, me, fall, friends, college, life. Nothing big.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

Folks who thrive in God's grace give grace easily, but the self-critical person becomes others-critical. We "love" people the way we "love" ourselves, and if we are not good enough, then no one is. We keep ourselves brutally on the hook, plus our husbands, our kids, our friends, our churches, our leaders, anyone "other." When we impose unrealistic expectations on ourselves, it's natural to force them on everyone else.

People will take as much as you will give them, not because they are terrible humans, but because they only want this one slice of you. It doesn't seem like much to them.

If our kids only expect blessings and exemptions, they will be terrible grown-ups.