Quotes About Expectations

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you.

The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love.

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside.

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.