Expectations Quotes And Sayings

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“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. “ 
– Sharon Creech

“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.” 
–  Charlotte Brontë

“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.” 
– C. S. Lewis

“If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.” 
– Roberto Bolano

“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.” 
– Brian Tracy 

“You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.” 
– Lisa Kyelpas

“That was the thing about the world: it wasn’t that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn’t expect.” 
– Lev Grossman

“I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.” 
– Julia Glass

“A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.” 
– Jonathan Lockwood Luie

“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.” 
– Tonya Hurley

“Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.” 
– L. M. Montgomery

“The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.” 
– Guy Finley

“Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.” 
–  Simone de Beauvoir

“We’re wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn’t, we start looking around for the real world.” 
– Lev Grossman

“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.” 
– Stephen Covey

“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.” 
– Tonya Hurley

“Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.” 
– Ronnie Oldham

“Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.” 
– Kelley Armstrong

“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.” 
– Brandon Sanderson

“You don’t ask nobody to give what they can’t give, or be what they can’t be. You’ve learnt that, you got a headstart on heartbreak.” 
– Jack Farris

“I don’t demand much. All I expect is for you to love me so much you kill yourself just to get my attention. ?” 
– Jarod Kintz

“I wasn’t disappointed. My expectations had been met.” 
– John Green

“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life…” 
– Tayeb Salih

“Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.” 
– Virginia Woolf

“Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.” 
– Norton Juster 

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