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
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
Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams. — James Franco
Our expectation that others will buy into our fake image is never satisfied – and we feel unhappy. — Mo Gawdat
High expectations are the key to everything. — Sam Walton
Unhappiness happens when your reality does not match your hopes and expectations. — Mo Gawdat
Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity — Will Smith
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational. — Bertrand Russell
Short Unrealistic Expectations Quotes
The enemy of peace of mind is expectations drilled into you by society and other people. — Naval Ravikant
If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations. — Chip Kelly
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle — Osho
False hopes are more dangerous than fears. — J. R. R. Tolkien
The secret to happiness is low expectations. — Barry Schwartz
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection. — Temple Grandin
False hope really makes you cynical. — Sayings
The secret to happiness is having low expectations. — Warren Buffett
Harsh reality is always better than false hope. — Julian Fellowes
Unrealistic Expectations Image Quotes
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Realistic Expectations Quotes
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 realist adjusts the sails. — William Arthur Ward
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. — John C. Bogle
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.
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. — Marilu Henner
When you see the truth of your unfolding life and compare it to realistic expectations of how life actually unfolds, you will remove the reasons to be unhappy and realize, more often than not, that everything’s fine, and so you will feel happy. — Mo Gawdat
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways. — Richard Branson
If we continue to devalue ourselves we cannot realistically expect respect from others. — T.I.
My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators. — Bill Parcells
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
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. — Jodi Picoult
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
Expect nothing, appreciate everything.
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
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
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
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
The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself! — Garrison Wynn
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
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails.
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
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
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
Too Much Expectation Quotes
Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase. — Terry Tempest Williams
English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth. — S. J. Perelman
The pressure on me is nothing compared to Ravindra Jadeja. Jadeja, like Ram Gopal Verma, must always fail. The crowd always expects him to fail and it is too much pressure on him. And, he rarely disappoints them. — Jacques Kallis
If you're abest during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more. — Melody Carlson
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. — Jane Austen
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true. — Lewis H. Lapham
Carry out a randon act of kindness, with no expectations of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener
If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon — Po Bronson
Sometimes, girls focus too much on relationships - like, "I need a boyfriend!" But you should really just focus on yourself. But it will all come together when you least expect it. — Ashley Tisdale
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. — Jonathan Ames
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
Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations. — Jim Harbaugh
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
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
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
Instead of trying to change another person's behavior, try changing the way you react. Acceptance without expectations is less stressful.
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
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months. — Irving Fisher
Low Expectations Quotes
Once I’d anchored their emotions in a minefield of low expectations, I played on their loss aversion. — Chris Voss
The first rule of happiness is low expectations. — Morgan Housel
I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded. — Earl Sweatshirt
It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. — Pamela Anderson
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations. — Susan Jacoby
Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans. — Ken Blanchard
Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities” — Erik Weihenmayer
Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe. — Elaine S. Dalton
We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning. — Stella Young
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Tavis Smiley
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
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
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
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so... — Alan Greenspan
Society is so tough and expectations are so unrealistic. Could I take better care of myself? Absolutely. I joke all the time that I'm old and I'm getting older and I feel it, so I guess I would rather talk about it with a smile and say, 'Oh God, I'm old!' than spend all my time at the dermatologist. I approach aging with ice cream and a martini. — Jenna Lyons
Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent. — Judith Guest
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be. — Pepper Schwartz
I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation. — Jack Tretton
It's better to look strong and healthy. — Jennifer Lawrence
Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy... — Jennifer Lawrence
Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort. — Dalai Lama
Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. — Chris Guillebeau
We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It’s disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire. — Jennifer Lawrence
The idea that positive illusions are in the service of sef-esteem virtually requires that they stay in check. If one develops substantially unrealistic expectations regarding the future that greatly exceed what one is actually able to accomplish, then one is set up for failure and disappointment, leading to lower self-esteem. — Shelley E. Taylor
In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created. — Crowder
I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look. — Emily Procter
I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not use certain language or certain words, like I have some kind of penalty restriction, it's completely unrealistic. — Jakob Dylan
All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't. — Doris Lessing
I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, "Oh, we're gonna eliminate racism like that. After Obama's elected how could there be any racism?". — Barack Obama
I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations. — Bette Midler
It is a statement to the obvious, however, that [Barack] Obama - of Obamacare - is the President of the United States, so I don't want people to have [unrealistic] expectations about what may actually become law with Obama - of Obamacare - in the White House. But we intend to keep our commitment to the American people. — Mitch McConnell
I've always found it sort of hilarious, and occasionally horrifying, how these images [in mass media] impact us, and especially when it comes to love and sex and relationships, I think we sometimes develop unrealistic expectations. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Halfway through Numbers, I got really jaded, and I had these unrealistic expectations about what Numbers could be. I thought it should be Emmy-nominated. I was in my mid-20s, so I was kind of shortsighted and silly. — David Krumholtz
I know that some poor immigrants from that era had unrealistic expectations and were disappointed, but I don't think my grandparents were disappointed at all, even though they experienced some very hard times during the Great Depression. — Samuel Alito
One of the most important discoveries I made in those early years was that to succeed at natural farming, you have to get rid of your expectations. Such "products" of the mind are often incorrect or unrealistic . . . and can lead you to think you've made a mistake if they're not met. — Masanobu Fukuoka
And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction. I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven't encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve. I'm looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed. — Alan Chambers
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. — Michael Howard
RIE emphasizes the benefits of infants spending peaceful, uninterrupted time following their biological rhythms of falling asleep when sleepy and eating when hungry, rather than their having to adjust too soon to external schedules and unrealistic expectations. First, we have to let the child develop his own rhythm; and then later he can adjust more into adult life. — Magda Gerber
The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations. — David Richo
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic. — Billy Graham
For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic. — Billy Graham
She realized how many of her beliefs were either unrealistic or belonged to her deceased parents and her ex-husband. She also realized that her expectations for herself and others were sometimes too rigid. She was trying to live up to what everyone else said was best for her, which made her depressed and hard to be around at times. Once she changed her beliefs about herself and others, she began to smile more and enjoy life. — Salle Merrill Redfield
Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to expect your agency to be impartial when its vested interest lies wholly in the direction of increasing your commissionable advertising. — David Ogilvy
It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened. In generations past there was far less talk about "compatibility" and finding the ideal soul mate. Today we are looking for someone who accepts us as we are and fulfills our desires, and this creates an unrealistic set of expectations that frustrates both the searchers and the searched for. — Timothy Keller
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of unrealistic expectations quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about unrealistic expectations to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of unrealistic expectations quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
