Quotes About Expectations

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

If we give up the notion that everybody's life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody's life is perfect.

There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

If you are going to worship a guy who was crucified, don't expect life to be pop and Skittles.

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

My parents' biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn't fathom me acting for the rest of my life.

I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.

Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

No matter what you do in life, someone important to you isn't going to like it.

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.