Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

I learned that you can't have any expectations with life. You never know what's going to happen.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Become aware of your negative expectations and practice replacing them with positive expectations.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

Don't place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.

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