Quotes About Expectations

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.

Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not!

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

I don't have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.

I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something.

We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.