Expectations Quotes - Page 3

If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.

Hope is an enthusiastic assurance.

Hope is the assurance of positive expectations.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

You can't give love when you haven't experienced love.

Don’t assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.

No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.

Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.

Men marry women hoping they'll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.

Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

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

Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.
Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn't want to be - a disappointment.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection

Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.