#Expectations Quotes

“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”

“I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .”

“Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.”

“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.”

“That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.”

“evenThe bed of love, that in the imaginationHad seemed to be the giver of all peace,Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting,And as soon finished.”

“The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re going to be.”

“People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible”

“What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?”

“But bear in mind your lover's wageIs what your looking-glass can show,And that he will turn green with rageAt all that is not pictured there.”

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”

“Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.”

“Don't expect people to abide by your rules if you don't clearly communicate what they are. And don't expect them to live by your rules if you're not willing to compromise and live by at least some of theirs.”

“Maybe the bride-bed brings despair,For each an imagined image bringsAnd finds a real image there...”

“The secret to happiness is having low expectations.”

“I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.”

“I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.”

“Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.”

“Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?”

“Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.”

“When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)”

“People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.”

“There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.”

“Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.”

“I never expected anything to be given to me.”

“I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.”

“A wedding is not house-keeping.”

“You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair.”

“Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully.”

“One believes others will do what he will do to himself.”

“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.”

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

“If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation.”

“I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.”

“When we meet someone and we fall in love we don’t ever imagine that it’s going to end.”

“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”

“Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.”

“It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.”

“We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"”

“We're cautious. We'd rather exceed expectations than miss but I think it's going to be a continued difficult economy. Apple is trying a different way to navigate out of this, we're trying to innovate.”

“Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.”

“My parents wanted me to go to school.”

“A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.”

“Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!”

“When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.”

“Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.”

“Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.”

“Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.”

“I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.”

“Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".”