Quotes About Expectations

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore

Sometimes, when a person gains a lot of success at a very young age, they become targets, and it's really easy to follow the crowds and not make independent decisions based on truly how you feel.

Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.

The QB is going to be judged, fair or unfair, on success in the playoffs. You remember QBs who have won 3 or 4 Super Bowls

I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's about to happen to them, much less a kid. There's not many people around who've experienced that.

Success is overrated.

Success is always less funny than failure.

People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.