Expectations Quotes

Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being,
you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

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.

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

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.

A desert is a place without expectation.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

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

I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

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.

Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

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.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

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.

I am not my hair I am not this skin I am not your expectations, no I am not my hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within.

You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want?

Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

I have been disappointed in all my expectations of Australia, except as to its wickedness; for it is far more wicked than I have conceived it possible for any place to be, or than it is possible for me to describe to you in England.

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.

Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

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

Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.

Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams.

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.

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

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.

If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.

Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.