Quotes About Expectations

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!

My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.

I have to admit,' replied Villefort, looking at his father with astonishment, 'you seem very well informed.' 'Heavens, it's simple enough. You people, who hold power, have only what can be bought for money; we, who are waiting to gain power, have what is given out of devotion.' 'Devotion?' Villefort laughed. 'Yes, devotion. That is the honest way to describe ambition when it has expectations.

Women of a certain grade are like prosperous grisettes in one respect, they seldom return home after twelve o'clock.

What my family seeks in this marriage is prestige; what I seek is happiness.

It is with valets as with wives, they must be placed at once upon the footing in which you wish them to remain. Reflect upon it.

The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all these illusions destroyed.

It is with valets as with wives, they must be placed at once upon the footing in which you wish them to remain. Reflect upon it. D'Artagnan

Loin de chez eux, ils s'autorisaient à vivre d'autres facettes de leur personnalité, en jachère, s'affranchissaient des attentes de leurs proches qui les bornaient, du personnage prévisible qu'ils jouaient en société.

There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make of man and woman beings not only equal but alike. They would give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things—their occupations, their pleasures, their business.

I realized that this is what many people in our society seem to want most from children: not that they are caring or creative or curious, but simply that they are well behaved.

We tell them how good they are and they light up, eager to please, and try to please us some more. These are the children we should really worry about.

people can surprise you in so many ways, both with cruelty and with kindness.

Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried to run away, it followed you through the grass and lay down beside you, it overtook common sense and willpower.

My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness.

It's for your own good," she said tenderly. "All I want for you is a normal life." "Mother," Franny sighed. "What makes you think that's what I want?

He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs

You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.

All I want for you is a normal life. Mother, what makes you think that's what I want?

People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.