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Quotes About Expectations

Some people will try to condemn you to the prison of their bullshit. They tell you they want a soulmate, but they're actually creating a cellmate.
~ Steve Maraboli
Someone somewhere may be one of the most important person to you currently but you will always be nothing more than a backup plan to them.
~ Lik Hock Yap
To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve.
~ Debasish Mridha
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
~ Sam Walton
My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person... so I can get a better girlfriend.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
~ Thomas Merton
You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.
~ French Montana
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
~ Robert Greene
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
~ Rick Warren
You don't always get the dog you want, but you get the dog that you need.
~ Cesar Millan
The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.
~ G. Campbell Morgan
Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.
~ John Mulaney
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear
~ Brian May
I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.
~ Assata Shakur
There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.
~ Jascha Heifetz
People aren't always what you want them to be
~ Libba Bray
'We have to be back in three hours,' Ronan said. 'I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.' 'This,' Gansey replied, 'is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.'
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.
~ Peter Cushing
That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.
~ Lenny Bruce
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
~ Harold Bloom
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
~ Francois Truffaut
Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
As a creator, I always want to betray fans expectations.
~ Hideo Kojima
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.
~ Kathleen Winsor