Quotes About Expectations

That's the trouble. I would be digging a ditch. They would say, That's no place for a man like you. Come up to the office. So I would be an overseer, and they would say That's no place for a man like you: Come into the building. Later they would say This is no job for a man like you, come higher up; and I would quit, and go and start digging a ditch somewhere else. You see?

La paciencia es una de las habilidades más difíciles de lograr para cualquier persona, porque implica desprenderse de las expectativas y resignarse a que las cosas sigan su curso.

Algunos defienden una aceptación "condicional", cuyo principio afirma: "Debes ganarte el amor a ti mismo haciendo cosas extraordinarias" o "Tu autoestima depende de tus logros o éxitos". Esto es tan absurdo como decir, por ejemplo, que solamente querré y aceptaré a mis hijos si son buenos estudiantes o se portan bien.

Si el amor teórico y celestial es ilimitado y no conoce condiciones, el amor terrenal las necesita, y con urgencia.

Premisa liberadora IX. Someterte al "qué dirán" es una forma de esclavitud socialmente aceptada

La prudencia es la carta de presentación de las personas tipo C. Ellas se vanaglorian de poseer el valor de la discreción en grado superlativo. Dicen exactamente lo que los demás esperan que digan, y se comportan como se espera que lo hagan. Hacen gala de una diplomacia digna de los mejores embajadores.

Entonces, uno de los principales enemigos para crear un buen autoconcepto es la falta de confianza en sí mismo, la manía de crear expectativas de fracaso o pensar que no es capaz. Si desconfías de ti, no podrás amarte.

Realmente, ¿nunca esperas nada a cambio de tu pareja, ni siquiera una mínima retribución? No seamos hipócritas. Si eres fiel, esperas fidelidad; si das sexo, esperas sexo; y si das ternura, no esperas un golpe. El mito del amor sin límites ha hecho que infinidad de personas establezcan relaciones totalmente dañinas e irracionales, en las que se promulga el culto al sacrificio y la abnegación sin fronteras.

de lograr para cualquier persona, porque implica desprenderse de las expectativas y resignarse a que las cosas sigan su curso.

Although girls express their feelings more easily, what they receive most often from girlfriends and mom is reassurance. Unlike boys, who are frequently challenged by their friends, girls are less likely to have anyone besides their dad to go to with the anticipation of being challenged by someone who has her best interest at heart.

Their successful husbands had learned that earning money led to love. Because it did. However, earning money didn't sustain love. As women were becoming more in touch with and sharing what was bothering them, their husbands were often burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets would miss. The more successful they were, the more they learned to repress their feelings, not express their feelings.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the sex, as by their own imaginations. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

Yet cricket was never the problem. In some ways, challenging as it often was, it was the simplest part of my life. Bowling to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara or batting against Shane Warne, Malcolm Marshall or Muttiah Muralitharan was child's play compared to handling the expectations of my nation, the turmoil of my team and the machinations of my administration.

Only I can give myself permission to rest or to overachieve, to pace myself or to run at the pace others expect of me.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

At nine, all fathers are perfect. At twenty-nine, they're not so perfect.

Busyness is not the goal of a conscientious believer; fruitfulness is. Not every request that comes my way is God's will for me to accept. Good opportunities are not necessarily godly ones. Expectations pushed on us by others are not the directions Jesus invites us to follow.

Bareheaded. No cap. Instead of crisp whites, a peasant blouse. "You're not a nurse.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

her mother began to pick apart the toilet paper covering her gift. 'I suppose," she said brightly, 'we should be grateful this hasn't been used before as well!

As I get older I'm starting to sense that being a grown-up isn't nearly as much fun as children want to believe.

In my daydreams I'm always much prettier (and smarter, funnier, and more popular). I also never fall into drainpipes.

Be honest, but don't hurt anyone's feelings be independent, but not a loner be smart, but not a nerd be sexy, but not a slut be skinny, but don't barf up your burger be funny, but not to hide some other deficiency. How the heck is a girl supposed to "be" anything?