Quotes About Expectations

11The Lord expects you to be fair in every business deal, for he is the one who sets the standards for righteousness.e

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

You sorta lose the fear of failure when everyone thinks you already gave it your best shot and blew it.

When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.

Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

I think, that love endures, but that it isn't everything, and it isn't ever what we want it to be...

M.'s mother doesn't reply. She just looks at me with her deep, deep black eyes. M. has described to me these eyes and their effect. I believe that M.'s mother respects me for standing my professional ground. I also believe that I will end up being a private detective, if that's what M.'s mother really wants me to be.

But things don't always go the way folks want . . . or hope. Life ain't like that.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments.

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

Life is a series of disappointments, but it's also full of surprises. You never know what's around the corner.

I've always thought that the key to a happy life is to have low expectations. That way, you're always pleasantly surprised.

Perfectionism is a self-defeating behavior that prevents us from taking risks and pursuing our dreams.

The difference between doing a good job and doing a lousy job is driven by how many people a leader has to keep happy.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

What money is to the son of the west, marriage is to the Korean: