Quotes About Expectations

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin.

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

If you lose, you're going to be fired, and if you win, you only put off the day you're going to be fired.