Expectations Quotes

“Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more
confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have
you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things
from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in
spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and
skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be
given you.”
― Ellen G. White

“I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?"

"Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three

“I think it’s weird how vanilla people just jump into a bed and fuck and don’t ever relish the moment, don’t talk to each other about what works and what doesn’t. So many people just expect sex to happen, but really great sex takes work, like everything in life. You have to talk to your partner.”
― Lexi Blake, A Dom is Forever

“Phoebe doesn't quite believe in fate the way I do. She says you have to chase your destiny, and she always expects life to be like a romantic comedy: all you have to do is dress the part of the heroine, and pretty soon you'll be kissing some hottie while fountains spew and music swells in the background.”
― Lauren Morrill, Meant to Be

“Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.”
― Steven Redhead, The Solution

“...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.”
― Don Roff

“Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did--a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down?”
― Christie Craig, Shut Up and Kiss Me

“It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.”
― Lionel Suggs

“I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person.”
― Tom Walsh

“Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.”
― Lexi Blake, A Dom is Forever

“You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.”
― Mark Graban, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction

“When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success is modest) promotes positive affect, reduces self-doubt, and helps to maintain motivation (e.g., McFarland & Ross, 1982).... Nevertheless, realistic optimism does not include or imply expectations that things will improve on their own. Wishful thinking of this sort typically has no reliable supporting evidence. Instead, the opportunity-seeking component of realistic optimism motivates efforts to improve future performances on the basis of what has been learned from past performances.”
― Sandra L. Schneider

“The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist.  But they don't.  And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ's apostles, they were destroyed by envy on the battlefront.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair

“And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.”
― Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

“none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you. Born through your dreams, crystallised into form by your desires, given impetus by your expectations, then made real through your beliefs.”
― steven redhead, Keys to the Laws of Creation

“Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.
Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.”
― Sartika Kurniali

“Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea când o primesc!”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.”
― Michael Gruber, The Good Son

“Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.”
― Ellen Airgood