Quotes About Expectations

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

I learned that you can't have any expectations with life. You never know what's going to happen.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

There was no Twitter when I was in high school, so I can't even imagine the pressures or the expectations of pursuing likes or living life in that kind of mentality.

When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.