Quotes about Expectations

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

During my teens and early 20s, I proved to be anything but what most people expected Billy Graham's son to be. I'm so thankful he never gave up on me or quit loving me.

Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.

No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

Sometimes to get your life back, you have to face the death of what you thought your life would look like.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them—after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.