Expectations Quotes - Page 3

Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

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.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

Peace begins When expectation ends.

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.

I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.