The secret to happiness is low expectations. — Barry Schwartz
The secret to happiness is having low expectations. — Warren Buffett
The first rule of happiness is low expectations. — Morgan Housel
Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised — Daniel Defoe
If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations. — Chip Kelly
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. — Ralph Marston
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. — Jodi Picoult
Here’s a simple solution: Take your expectations and throw them in the ocean. — Leo Babauta
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. — Bette Davis
Expect nothing. Today: that is your life. — Kurt Tucholsky
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst. — Joyce Carol Oates
Stop expecting more from yourself than the best you can do. — Steven Bartlett
Do Not Expect Quotes
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
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. — Huey Newton
Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return. — Katharine Hepburn
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. — William Penn
Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers. — Alexander The Great
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. — Linus Torvalds
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.
I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped. — Frederick Salomon Perls
You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it. — Mark Twight
Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen. — Wendell Berry
Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world. — Swami Vivekananda
No Expectations Quotes
No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . . — Kwame Nkrumah
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. — Richard P. Feynman
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve. — Sivananda
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. — James E. Faust
Real love doesn't die. It's the physical body that dies. Genuine, authentic love has no expectations whatsoever; it doesn't even need the physical presence of a person. ... Even when he is dead and buried that part of you that loves the person will always live. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. — Princess of Wales Diana
Expect nothing, appreciate everything.
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something. — Bill Parcells
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. — Richard Dawkins
No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well. — Anthony Hopkins
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. — L. Neil Smith
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
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly. — Dorothy Denning
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly. — Dorothy E. Denning
I would expect, going to Hell, being surrounded by people that look and act like this guy - Sir Jimmy Savile. Obviously psychopathic eyes. If you saw this guy at the playground you would call the police. Just flaming scumbag. Just over the top, out of control, degenerate demon. — Alex Jones
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails.
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
We often choose knowing over goodness. We'd rather know what's going to happen than expect to be treated with respect and worth. — Jay Shetty
I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. — Zora Neale Hurston
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. — Baltasar Gracian
Expectation Quotes
You treat me like a dog and you expect me to smile? You remind me of a jackass. — Stone Cold Steve Austin
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
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here? — Jonathan Edwards
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
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres
If you're abest during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him! — Dwight L. Moody
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 lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked. — Bill Hybels
If someone is winning at a higher level than you are, either lower your expectations to match your work ethic or increase your work ethic to exceed your expectations. If you do neither, you'll be miserable. What it all boils down to is that alignment is the key to fulfillment. — Patrick Bet-David
When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals. — Cory Doctorow
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met? — Bill Watterson
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations. — Zig Ziglar
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer. — Peter Maxwell Davies
Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. — Don Roff
My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up and everyone I know is like LOL JK BEST LONG - RUNNING PRACTICAL JOKE EVER, so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything. Not in an effort to be cool or not care or anything, just out of neurosis. — Tavi Gevinson
Evaluation and coaching get tangled together. When this occurs, the noise of evaluation drowns out coaching efforts. Think of this like a term paper. When you get your assignment grade back (evaluation) you tend to tune out the professor notes in the margins (coaching) if the grade is higher or lower than expected. — Sheila Heen
The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself! — Garrison Wynn
I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier. — Simone Elkeles
Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier. — Simone Elkeles
How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse. — Denis Johnson
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