Quotes About Expectations

Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over—expectations

harmony, joy, and peace will never grace a home ruled by expectations instead of by the cross.

We never slept together until our wedding night, so the honeymoon was a rather intoxicating experience, but once the honeymoon was over, reality immediately set in like a dense Seattle fog.

getting married won't make you happy or an adult; getting married simply makes you … married.

Each day we must die to our own desires and rise as a servant. Each day we are called to identify with the suffering Christ on the cross and then be empowered by the resurrected Christ. We die to our expectations, our demands, and our fears. We rise to compromise, service, and courage. IN THE SAME WAY JESUS GAVE HIS BODY FOR US, WE ARE TO LAY DOWN OUR ENERGY, OUR BODIES, AND OUR LIVES FOR OTHERS.

The key question is this: Will we approach marriage from a God-centered view or a man-centered view? In a man-centered view, we will maintain our marriage as long as our earthly comforts, desires, and expectations are met. In a God-centered view, we preserve our marriage because it brings glory to God and points a sinful world to a reconciling Creator.

Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over—expectations, or thanksgivings.

women, if you simply follow your feelings, you are more likely to fall in love with a guy who will thrill you for twelve to eighteen months as a boyfriend and then frustrate you for five to six decades as a husband. Guys, on the other hand, are more inclined to experience romantic love with women they are attracted to physically, yet physical appearance is the thing most likely to change in a person's life.

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

When people seek the help of a professional, they usually have certain expectations about how a competent one looks and behaves.

Do you see the common thread in all this thinking? Two words: misplaced expectations. When you expect people, places, and things to fulfill your wants, you will be disappointed. And anytime you put your expectations for help in the wrong place, the result is fear.

stress is the gap between what we expect from God's creations and what we're actually receiving. Since only God can meet our deepest needs, the more we look to people and things to satisfy us, the more gaps we'll have and the more our frustration will increase.

We look to our friends or family members or spouses to fulfill our wants. And there's something functionally dysfunctional about such a dependency.

In other words, fear of the world not meeting your expectations is the cause of your emotional pain.

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

He found the slot that people thought best suited him and he crammed himself into it. He grew up.

They would worship you when you brought them success or food for their bellies, but they would impale you on a pole if you crossed them or failed to live up to their expectations. The people were a mob. Yahweh did not pick Israel because they were more righteous than the other nations, or for anything in themselves. He chose them as his people from his own mysterious sovereign will, for his own mysterious sovereign purposes.

I wanted to shake her awake and ask what she saw in Mr. Moneybags. But having now met him, he was everything most women dream of—handsome, filthy rich, smart, filthy rich, principled, filthy rich, and with a very pleasant personality.

The expectations of civilized society should afford all the protection a person needs. But that armor is rendered as thin as a tissue when one is dealing with the uncivilized. -Bene Gesserit Archives

Heather resented it that this woman was his daughter. How does a writer of the most subtle, serious fiction end up with a daughter who watches Oprah? I'd be a better daughter for him than she is.

Why was it that at every grown-up function, the exact same conversation had to take place? Sometimes Emily felt as if she could hand out scripts, to save everybody the trouble of thinking, except that there would be no point, because they weren't thinking--they were just saying the same things they'd said the last time.

If you really listen, you find that most people tell you their life stories as soon as they meet you. Ariel, clearly, was another boring forty-year-old obsessed with her "biological clock.

There's no such thing as free kittens.