Expectations Quotes - Page 22

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

You live up - or down - to your expectations.

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

My actions will follow my expectations.

The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.

Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.

As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.

Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

Something you're aware of being a quarterback coming here-you have expectations, and you want to live up to those.

I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations.

People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so...