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Quotes About Expectations

He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your success does not depend on who you are but what you are and the strength of your expectations.
~ Debasish Mridha M.D.
The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
When you give, give without any expectations.
~ Vishwas Chavan
How could you expect people to treat you well, when you don't treat yourself right?
~ Rafaa Khiari
A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nothing incites failure more than success.
~ Unknown
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is-try to please everybody.
~ Herbert Bayard Swope
The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.
~ Harry Wong
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
~ Bill Gates
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.
~ Todd Whitaker
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
~ Sidney Hook
When we are young, parents and teachers tell us we can do anything and become whatever we want. But as we grow older, these same people tell us we must be more realistic.
~ Michael Hyatt
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
~ Jeb Bush
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
~ Charles Kennedy
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
~ Edward Griffith Begle
When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
~ Virginia Graham
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.
~ Robert Sternberg
If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.
~ Jamie Moyer
I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
~ Paul Newman
Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.
~ Raheem Jarbo
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
~ Sherry Turkle
I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.
~ Travis Barker