Quotes About Expectations

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

Modi has failed to respect his own family.

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

If I only worked in England for the rest of my life, I wouldn't feel like I failed.

Mum was on benefits for a few years. Then I failed the 11-plus and I went to the secondary modern. And that was hard because the expectations were so low in the school.

Nothing shatters the relationship between you and your boss like you failing to meet expectations, deadlines, and goals.

I'm very hard on myself. I think that drives me because I don't want to let people down or let myself down. That fear of failing drives me from being complacent.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

I know that I have a good career and I'm really busy, but there's always that part of my mind that's like, 'You're not doing enough, nobody knows you're alive, you're failing.'

My biggest fear, the only fear that I have is failing. I hate to fail at anything that I do and that's really my only fear in life, to be a failure.

You can't criticize a coach until he fails to win with players he recruited.

When you don't win, you get called a failure.

I have a fear of failure, letting someone down, contradicting myself.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.

I think I'm fairly demanding, probably. You have to feel that when you're appointed to a job you have to do the job.

I am not drawn to the fairytale kind of love. I am drawn to the real-life experiences between a woman and a man. I try to sing about the way it is, but yet at the same time, what you can hope for between a couple.

I think there is a lot of pressure on people to be perfect all the time, and so there is this fairytale image of everything, but at the end of the day we are just like other people.

Tennis is fake. We have real characters, but they don't dare to be themselves, and the code of conduct has a lot to do with that.

I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.

Being the champ is fake, all of that is all fake.