Quotes About Expectations

If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

I've always had such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

[My father] said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.

He who demands little gets it.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low.

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.

I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.

Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

No man is a hero to his own wife; no woman is a wife to her own hero.

When you criticize grown men, it's a lot easier. They make millions of dollars. They should be able to handle it, especially if you do it in a truthful manner... I'm sure it stings, but my whole objective is to be honest.

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

When you try to do everything perfectly, it gets very tiring.

There are expectations in everyone's lives. It might be small or big, but then you cannot forget to prioritise what is important and try to focus when it is really needed.

I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.

I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

You're trying your best to make people laugh; then if you fail, they hate you. But your intent's the same. It's not like you're trying to do evil to them.