Quotes about Expectations
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
— Mark Twain
As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
— Seth Godin
Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.
— Timothy Keller
I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'
— Jennifer Aniston
People want you to fail.
— Lady Gaga
People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
— Philip Yancey
You have to embrace the life you have, not the one you expected you'd have - or the one others expect you to have.
— Susan May Warren
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
— George Bernard Shaw
Love hurts because we think that's what love is.
— Marty Rubin
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (v. 17). This means there is also an absence of expectations.
— Charles Swindoll
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
— Anne Lamott
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.
— Toni Morrison