Expectations Quotes

Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.

I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.

I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

Never expect to be given anything, other than love, for free in your life because if you do you will fail.

I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

You have to love what you do, to give your best.

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

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.

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.