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  • If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. -- Michael Jordan
  • I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. -- Bruce Lee
  • Expectations define achievement. -- Debasish Mridha
  • Expectations determine outcome, always! -- Deepak Chopra
  • Expectations are resentments under construction. -- Anne Lamott
  • Expectations are an evil thing. -- Skylar Grey
  • Expectations create and shape reality. -- Debasish Mridha
  • Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling. -- Vern Law
  • Expectations are made to be exceeded! -- Lorii Myers
  • Expectations are resentment waiting to happen. -- Anne Lamott
  • Expectations are resentments waiting to happen -- Macklemore
  • Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen. -- Demi Lovato
  • Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness -- Dennis Prager
  • Expectations are the engines of our perceptions. -- Seth
  • No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto. -- Arlo Guthrie
  • Expectations have a way of being fulfilled. -- Judith Rodin
  • Expectations have no effect on the harvest. -- Marty Rubin
  • Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories. -- Jeremy Irvine
  • Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to. -- Tony Robbins
  • Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected -- Pen
  • My favorite definition of fear is: False Expectations Appearing Real -- Jill Bolte Taylor
  • Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. -- Lionel Shriver
  • Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. -- Bill Gates
  • I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments. -- Michael Landon
  • If you truly dwell within Acceptance, you are wityout two things-Expectations and Disappointments. -- Mary Summer Rain
  • Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance. -- Elizabeth George
  • Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier. -- Simone Elkeles
  • Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake -- Callie Hunter
  • Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. -- Norton Juster
  • Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. -- Brandon Sanderson
  • I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs. -- Ragnar Kjartansson
  • Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed. -- Samuel P. Huntington
  • The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing. -- Robert Neelly Bellah
  • Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. -- Alice Walker
  • High expectations are the key to everything. -- Sam Walton
  • Don't believe in miracles - depend on them. -- Laurence J. Peter
  • You can't base your life on other people's expectations. -- Stevie Wonder
  • We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. -- Ivan Illich
  • High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. -- Charles Kettering
  • When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. -- Ryan Reynolds
  • If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed. -- Terrell Owens
  • It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations. -- Danny Boyle
  • Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them. -- Jeb Bush
  • I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people. -- John Frusciante
  • I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. -- Charles Dickens
  • Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. -- Richard DeVos
  • Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. -- Brian Tracy
  • The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment. -- Charles Krauthammer
  • Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. -- Bob Beauprez
  • My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. -- Michael J. Fox
  • A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. -- Patricia Neal
  • It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. -- Mike Huckabee
  • Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. -- Earl Nightingale
  • I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. -- Gwendoline Christie
  • The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. -- Confucius
  • Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations. -- Les Brown
  • There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. -- Orison Swett Marden
  • If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. -- Norman Vincent Peale
  • To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. -- Joan Didion
  • I have high expectations of myself. I always have, always will. That will never waver. I always believe in my talent - always have. -- Russell Wilson
  • Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. -- Denis Waitley
  • There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. -- Erich Fromm
  • Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. -- Princess Diana
  • Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality. -- Jacque Fresco
  • To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations. -- Anthony Hitt
  • Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' -- Peter Drucker
  • The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
  • Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. -- Marilu Henner
  • The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations. -- Zig Ziglar
  • We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests. -- Sheryl Sandberg
  • Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. -- Greg Anderson
  • Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. -- Baltasar Gracian
  • Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser. -- Roy H. Williams
  • Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. -- Steve Jobs
  • Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man. -- Joyce Meyer
  • It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked. -- Jonah Hill
  • Peace beginsWhen expectation ends. -- Sri Chinmoy
  • Don't expect anything except yourself. -- Goitsemang Mvula
  • Hope is an enthusiastic assurance. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • You can't eat straight A's. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
  • One always expects something else. -- Erich Maria Remarque
  • In a world of increasing uncertainty, expect... -- Gino Norris
  • Anticipate the miraculous splendour of everyday wonder. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Seize every opportunity and make it great. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected. -- Norton Juster
  • Hope is the assurance of positive expectations. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met. -- John Green
  • People express their arrogance in their failed expectations. -- Travis Luedke
  • I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. -- Julia Glass
  • Do--what should be done--without expecting anything in return. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
  • Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high. -- Kelley Armstrong
  • Don't let what your parents do disappoint you. -- Richard Ford
  • Never expect anything without being prepared to give. -- Debasish Mridha
  • We wait expectantly for what we hope for. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • You see what you expect to see, Severus. -- J. K. Rowling
  • The pleasure is there; between your expectations and regrets. -- Bryant McGill
  • I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully. -- Jude Morgan
  • God honors and blesses people of action beyond expectations. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life.. -- Shivam Singh
  • No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment. -- Jude Morgan
  • You can't give love when you haven't experienced love. -- Kemi Sogunle
  • Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. -- Oscar Wilde
  • If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. -- Tonya Hurley
  • a lot of happiness lead a person to disappointments. -- AribaZafar
  • I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand. -- Jenna Karel
  • Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. -- Mark Twain
  • I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free -- Nikos Kazantzakis
  • People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment. -- Isaac Asimov
  • Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws~? -- Shannon L. Alder
  • People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed. -- Lemony Snicket
  • Happy are those who expect nothing; they won't be disappointed -- Abel
  • A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect. -- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  • -but what people expect can change you in the end. -- Justin Go
  • It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. -- George Eliot
  • Explore, experience, evolve, and exceed your expectations! - No Excuses! -- Lorii Myers
  • She was heavier than he expected - women always are. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Only thing that makes us fail in all moments, expectations. -- Yogeshwaran Selvaraju
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