Expectations Quotes - Page 16

Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

People are not here to meet your expectations.

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.

You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations, just be the best you can be

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Have an attitude of positive expectation.

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.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because "the spiritual" is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect.

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.

I have hope. I have no expectations.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.