Quotes and Sayings About Expectations
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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
-- A.C.H. Smith -
Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.
-- Akira Mori -
Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.
-- Al Franken -
I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.
-- Alaa Al Aswany -
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
-- Alain de Botton -
He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
-- Alain de Botton -
It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.
-- Alain de Botton -
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
-- Alan Dundes -
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...
-- Alan Greenspan -
If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
-- Alan Rickman -
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated
-- Alan Watts -
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
-- Albert Bandura -
I never worried about teams who spend what they want to spend. It never bothered me. At the moment we have a lot of Middle Eastern owners, we have American owners of course, Russian owners. It never bothered me one bit. All I was concerned about was that we at United maintained our level of expectation, be competitive, be at the top part of the Premier League.
-- Alex Ferguson -
Uh... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest in following. Created expectations that I was not cut-out to match. Disappointed virtually all of my readers subsequently. But I like what I've done, and I stand by it all.
-- Alex Garland -
There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
-- Alex Kapranos -
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.
-- Ali al-Naimi -
Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.
-- Alice Kahn -
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.
-- Alice Miller -
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.
-- Alison McGhee -
Totally. I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular. You’re just enjoying it, and making something because you love it, and love the people that you’re playing with. I guess everything happens as a reason.
-- Alison Mosshart
