Expectations Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

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 place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.

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.

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.