Expectations Quotes

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Michael Jordan

Change, Others, Negative

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

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

Life, Death, Fear

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius

Life, Work, Perfect

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

Life, Happy, Stress

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Leo Buscaglia

Live, Others, Idealize

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

Happy, Yourself, Mind

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

Positive, Winners, Event

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston

Best, Yourself, Reality

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

Person, Off, Show

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
Michael Landon

Life, Lead, Giant

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
Bill Gates

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

Best, Successful, Greatest

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Earl Nightingale

Work, Live, Mirror

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

Love, Started, Hopes

High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton

Everything, High, Key

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Orison Swett Marden

Work, Expect, Honestly

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

Success, Mind, Often

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
Peter Drucker

Knowledge, Decision, Against

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox

Happiness, Acceptance, Direct

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

Computers, Few, Though

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
Max Lucado

Earth, Heaven, Expect

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
Mary Douglas

Hand, Injustice, Promises

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

Reality, Real, Whatever

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

Life, Love, Experience

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
Eli Khamarov

Life, Best, Unexpected

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
Pamela Anderson

Great, Easy, Surprise

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Fritz Perls

Live, Nor, Mine

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
Quentin Tarantino

Away, Top, Blow

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
Bill Watterson

Life, Find, Keep

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