Expectations Quotes - Page 19

We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.

Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.

You feel guilt when you're not necessarily in the best mood and you say to your fans "No, I don't want to take a photo," or you're not as happy or bubbly as they probably thought you would be. I've had to remind myself that's okay. No one's forcing me or any other celebrity to take time out of their day to say hi to these fans or do these things. There is a sense of guilt that you can feel sometimes for not meeting their expectations, but that's kind of wrong for me to think that way, because I am a person.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day.

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

You can have all you can expect and accept.

March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

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

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.

Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others. Instead of these popular strategies, we learn to simply stay present opening in the moment - with nothing in the way - so we can experience life as it occurs.

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

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

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.