Best 2005 quotes in «expectations quotes» category

Seize every opportunity and make it great.

Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.

Set great expectations for yourself.

Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.

Setting proper expectations from the moment you meet a potential client will reduce stress and enable all parties to work together, rather than struggling contentiously through the process.

She’d struck Esk once before – the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough idea of what to expect from life.

She had accomplished great things despite imperfection.

She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.

She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you’re inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.

She realized she'd been thinking for years that she would not truly be pleased until she'd checked off this last achievement on her list, but one of the dangers of such thinking is that the event one hopes for never quite lives up to the expectation.

She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.

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

Should we “expect” our physical, sexual, intellectual, and emotional intimacies to automatically continue throughout a marriage? Nope. At least, not in my opinion. But I do think we should be able to expect both partners to protect and preserve the sanctity of these intimacies. That, to me, is part of honest loyalty.

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

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.

Some expectation are inevitable but the problem happens when we are not able to measure the likelihood of reciprocation or fulfillment. We fail as measuring instruments, and so we drag & impose our expectations and ourselves along.

Si hay algo extravagante en el mundo es ver a los hombres, que no conocen a su dios y lo que ese dios pueda exigir más que según sus limitadas ideas, querer, sin embargo, decidir sobre la naturaleza de lo que contenta o desagrada a ese ridículo fantasma de su imaginación.

Since I will never know what the future holds, I choose to live my life expecting great things

Some people get married because of what they hope to receive, rather than what they want to give. This is a recipe for disaster.

Some people are chronically unhappy only because they do not have some of the things some people expect them to want.

Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.

Something must be birth out of whatever He has given you.

Sometimes expecting the benefit is not beneficial without analyzing the benefit we are providing to others. Benefit remains a benefit when both the parties get benefited from it.

Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said thought or conception as something fated, inevitable, and foreordained—something bound to happen. Whether by this there is connoted something in the nature of a combination of presentiments, or a great effort of will, or a self-annulment of one's true expectations, and so on, I do not know;

Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life..

Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't add up nearly so well, that I'm just a shadowed reflection of them. Now that question hounds me a lot more often than I like to admit.

sometimes moms are bribes, bludgeoning, with tongues that chase you whenever you get a chance passed a mirror

Sometimes my entire life has felt like one long exercise in lowering my expectations.

Sometimes you have to live down to people's expectations, Kate. If you can do that, you'll get much further in life.

Sometimes you have to forgive the present moment for not living up to your past expectations of what your future would look like.

Sometimes you aren’t listening to your body because you’re listening to everybody else’s expectations.

Start with a cry, end with a smile.

Standards are not established by your proclamations they are established by your routines.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make of the hollow world a fuller, messier, prettier place, but all our inventions can't create the one thing we require: to deserve any fond attention we might accidentally receive, to receive any fond attention we don't in the course of things deserve. We are never enough to ourselves because we can never be enough to another. Any one of us walks into any room and reminds its occupant that we are not the one they most want to see. We are never the one. We are never enough.

Such confusion was, however, his normal state of mind. Without it, he would feel rather lost. Confusion is the only possible result of a lifetime of being asked unanswerable questions by one’s parents and relatives, such as ‘What are we going to do with you?’ or ‘Why can’t you be more like your sister?’ To judge by the frequency with which he encountered it, the latter problem was the truly significant one, to which not even the tremendous intellectual resources of his family had been able to find an answer.

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.

Susie: Okay, Calvin. But you know what? You can't say, youcan'texpectanythingfrommeI'mbroken! And turn around the next minute and say, ohwoeismeeverybodytreatsmelikeI'mbroken! Which one is it? I can treat you the way I really feel, or I can treat you careful. Me: Real. Just be real.

Take that chance : even though this is hard, you'll get it in a peace. Leave that chance : i know it's easy, but you will always walk in regret

Teach your children this from a very early age: "Everybody in this world is different, you're going to meet people who don't look like you, think like you, or even feel like you. This world is filled with so many different colours and shapes, so many different thoughts and feelings. You should never expect anyone else to be the same as you and you should never expect yourself to be the same as anybody else. But everyone can have so much fun learning about each other and celebrating one another" and when you are all able to do this, the world will begin to change for the better.

That feeling you get after you’ve just published your book and sense something should happen; and you wake up the next day, and the next, and that feeling of expectation is still there. That’s when you realize you have the patience of Job and lots more paper to fill…

Take a moment and think of something small but significant that you've wanted for decades. Dream about it. Wish for it. Let the dreaming and wishing sink deeply into your being. Add some memories of disappointment just for a little flavor. At some point, over time, a wish can become too important, can become much bigger as a dream than it ever had a right to be.

That's exactly why you have to be the one to bully yourself. You always have to have that calm and cool person inside you who will shoot you that chilly glare: Of course not. I don't trust other people much, but I trust myself less.

the big thing no one was expecting to happen, that no one had ever imagined could happen, was happening in all the unexpected and unimaginable ways that big things tend to happen.

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

The expectations of others can disappoint, hurt, humiliate even terribly damage you. Be aware that every person is naturally selfish in any way at any point. When you feel and see no any response to your devotion, don't wait further and move away to save yourself from sadist mind people. Your struggle or determination is the central base of your success and happiness.

The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the sun for the first time it would be the most fearful and beautiful of meteors. Now that we see it for the hundredth time we call it, in the hideous and blasphemous phrase of Wordsworth, "the light of common day." We are inclined to increase our claims. We are inclined to demand six suns, to demand a blue sun, to demand a green sun. Humility is perpetually putting us back in the primal darkness. There all light is lightning, startling and instantaneous. Until we understand that original dark, in which we have neither sight nor expectation, we can give no hearty and childlike praise to the splendid sensationalism of things.

The expectations that others play on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one’s new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one’s existence. The only one.