Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. — Brandon Sanderson
We often expect too much of others when we don’t have a clear sense of their purpose in our lives. — Jay Shetty
High expectations are the key to everything. — Sam Walton
Good is not good, when better is expected. — Thomas Fuller
Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing. — Osho
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it. — A. Philip Randolph
One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected. — Faith Sullivan
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Limit Your Expectations Quotes
Don’t burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share. — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. — Denis Waitley
I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me. — Robin Hobb
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
Limit your thinking and expectation today to only the things God can do. — Louie Giglio
Expecting Too Much Quotes
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility. — John Howard
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. — May Sarton
Leaders must have patience for those under your supervision. Don't expect too much too soon. Maybe it was easy for you, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy for somebody else. Be sure you have patience. — John Wooden
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another. — Ruth Graham
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree? — Mortimer Adler
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Expect nothing, appreciate everything.
The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable.
It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang.
Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough
or receiving in us just the right answer.
You, the Staggering Answer — Buddy Wakefield
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. — Eric Hoffer
Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death. — Barbara Ehrenreich
In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good? — Ernest L. Boyer
High Expectations Quotes
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself. — Chronixx
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. — Jodi Picoult
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations. — Jim Harbaugh
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. — Jack Kinder
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff. — Judi Dench
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails.
To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game. — Kerri Walsh
Mobile devices, high-speed data communication, and online commerce are creating expectations that convenient, secure, real-time payment and banking capabilities should be available whenever and wherever they are needed. — Jerome Powell
Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them. — Sayings
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated. — Sylvester Stallone
Unrealistic Expectations Quotes
Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant. — Rick Warren
Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it. — Damon Dash
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. — Leo Buscaglia
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom." — John Daly
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives. — Heraclitus
If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic. — Alistair Begg
If you're abest during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. — Chuck Palahniuk
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations. — Stephen Covey
As you get older, you tend to be a little less patient with people - people who are not prepared, people who have unrealistic expectations, people who make unrealistic demands, people who think they're more special than other people. — Steven Pacey
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them. — George Soros
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens
Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work. — Jim Harbaugh
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. — Dennis Wholey
You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again. — Tom Petty
What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons. — Gene Wilder
If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways. — Saint John Chrysostom
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of expected quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about expected to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of expected quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
