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If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you'll keep resentment far away. — Confucius

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London. — Shawn Johnson

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. — Samuel Johnson

I could not fill those expectations. I've never been presented to the queen," Hamilton said. "Because we live in America and don't have a queen. — Jen Turano

The forces of procrastination, self-doubt, worry, cultural expectations, even family and friends, can hold your life in place, like Gravity. — Matt Gersper

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. — Brian Tracy

Live up to your potential, not down to others expectations. — Lawrence Christopher

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him. — Thomas Hobbes

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension. — Anthony Hopkins

Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him. — Kevin Leman

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them. — Shirley Maclaine

For every sacrifice, there is an expectation of reward. — Wes Fesler

They practice critical awareness by reality-checking the messages and expectations that tell us that being imperfect means being inadequate. — Brene Brown

You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences. — Esther Hicks

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

No expectations, by the way. I'm not inviting you to, like, a three- day fuck fest or anything. — Elle Kennedy

When expectations of mobility are combined with a consumer mind-set, people are very likely to leave when things get difficult. — Christine D. Pohl

I knew her a long time. The truth was we both had certain expectations of each other. In the end, I suppose they were too high. — Kathleen Tessaro

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest. — William James

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

The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up. — Anuj

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 — India.Arie

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect — Jane Austen

If you want to be outstanding, stop meeting expectations, start exceeding them — Saji Ijiyemi

The pleasure is there; between your expectations and regrets. — Bryant McGill

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them. — Stephen Colbert

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations — Rick Riordan

Be great, dwell on great thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

So to some extent he [Barack Obama] is a victim of the expectations and the high hopes that we experienced. — Michael Fullilove

When expectations exceed reality, frustration is the result. — Jeffrey A. White

You will get what you want, but you have to expect it with your open heart. — Debasish Mridha

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations. — June Jordan

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth. — Jennifer Senior

I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations. — Parul Wadhwa

Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations ... — Jim Harbaugh

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ... — Jane Porter

Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less. — Diane Meier

To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves. — Robin Crow

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved. — Seth Godin

A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things. — Oprah Winfrey

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope. — William Walsh

What you do without expectations defines your success. — Debasish Mridha

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations. — Caitlyn Jenner

It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst. — Lily James

Although 'Mockingjay 2' grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations. — Jon Feltheimer

Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness — Vijay Dhameliya

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations. — Timothy Keller

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate. — Martha Beck

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations. — Alex Kapranos

Examine your attitudes toward food, clothes, and shelter. By reducing expectations you will promote contentment. — Dalai Lama XIV

Jesus' love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him. — Todd Stocker

Culture drives expectations and beliefs. Expectations and beliefs drive behaviors. Behaviors drive habits and habits create the future. — Jon Gordon

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. — Aleksandar Hemon

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed. — Patricia McCormick

My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness. — Alice Hoffman

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. — Tonya Hurley

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing. — Eric Schmidt

Supplication is to implore God for mercy and compassion, to have pity upon you or to grant you the request given and expect that He will do it. — Robin Bertram

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

I hate high expectations because they're hard to beat. — Neal H. Moritz

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations. — Jeff Bridges

I think expectations of 'Doctor Who' should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better. — Matt Smith

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures. — Henry David Thoreau

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. — George Eliot

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations. — Oswald Spengler

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations. — Christian Bale

Stars walk among us! Just keep your expectations low because they might be going to a shoe or the loo, for that matter! — Tom Harvey

Expectation is a powerful attractive force. — Rhonda Byrne

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities. — Charles Dickens

My worst expectations never happened. — Barbara Bush

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough. — Conrad Veidt

He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life. — Anne Frasier

My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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. — Joel Greenblatt

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies. — Rajneesh

I'd been wandering about in the enchantments of romance, afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations. — Sue Monk Kidd

I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations. — Gillian Jacobs

No one will take care of me but me. I let go of all expectations and love and accept myself. — Leslie Volker

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are. — Steve Carell

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. — George Eliot

We tend to live up to our expectations. — Earl Nightingale

There's no point in getting angry. Anger makes you ask questiona. Anger sets up expectations and demands to know the truth. — Gayle Friesen

And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went. — J. Courtney Sullivan

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations. — Abraham Low

My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams — Noorilhuda

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. — Robert Breault

pessimism works because it's self-fulfilling: if you're a slacker with low expectations, they'll probably be met. — Peter Thiel

It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just realistic about life. — Shannon Noelle Long

Expectations have no effect on the harvest. — Marty Rubin

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do. — William J.H. Boetcker

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker. — Charles Caleb Colton

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place. — Paige Toon

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

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

Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations. — Margot Lee Shetterly

It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them yourself. — Jay Parini

-but what people expect can change you in the end. — Justin Go

I will try to live up to expectations of people; will present report card to people in 2019. — Narendra Modi

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster. — Bear Grylls

Happy are those who expect nothing; they won't be disappointed — Abel