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Quotes About Expectations

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
~ Alanis Morissette
I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
~ Paul McCartney
You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.
~ Bill Cosby
I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.
~ Danny Boyle
Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
~ Christopher McQuarrie
A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
~ Og Mandino
If I had known what it would be like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.
~ Lily Tomlin
Nobody wants great things for you. They all want you to be something they deem important for them.
~ Abhijit Naskar
The road to success is longer than you'd like, but shorter than you imagine.
~ Tim Fargo
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
~ Herbert Bayard Swope
When you fall short of your goals and dreams ask yourself is it your mindset, perspective, expectations, effort, approach, acceptance, company or a blend of these that needs to change.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
If a goal is only success oriented and not happiness oriented, then it will fill your life with stress, anxiety, and frustration.
~ Debasish Mridha
Being sick successfully is not included in society's panoply of worthy goals.
~ Kaimana Wolff, Broken Sleep
When you do not have your clear definition of what success looks like, you tend to feel unsuccessful every time other people talk about their success.
~ Rosette Mugidde Wamambe
It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
The discovery of your life's purpose is your ultimate pathway to an extraordinary life. You were born an original, so quit conforming to the expectations of others.
~ Mensah Oteh
Gratitude is arriving at the point where your expectations, accumulation and anticipations make way for appreciation, reflection and celebration.
~ Mensah Oteh
We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.
~ Chris Burkmenn
It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.
~ Roopleen
What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life.
~ Shannon L. Alder
One woman's definition of success may not be another's. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick?
~ Donna Lynn Hope