1,365 Quotes About Expectations

Reality disappoints regularly. When people are supposed to have fun, it’s likely they won’t, because fun can’t live up to its image. Does anything live up to its image?

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.

Someone can make a significant life change- if s/he has necessary desire, strength, and motivation to cause the change to happen.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.