Quotes about Expectations

It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

I can't imagine the pressure you must be under to have the weight of an entire country on your shoulders.

Great part of our growth includes disengaging from the expectations of others.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all. But it consoled me in a way too; I could see that if I got them all read and had no more surprises in that line, I would have been sorry.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn't shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn't shirk it. Love, after all, "hopeth all things." But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

I kept thinking that. I don't know why it is I can't seem to learn that a woman'll do anything.

the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease

God has a way of working on His own timetable. And it usually is a lot different from ours.

I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home)

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.