In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is…only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can...

Although we may encounter dark seasons, when we’re filled with joy we’ll have confident expectations that the sun will soon return and dark clouds will pass.

Most of the times reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

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

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Don’t expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people.

The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living–all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my...

After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn’t stop her expectations from rising. She imagined herself transformed and beautiful, like Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, with her homemade dress and mysterious lace boots. She...

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

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

N’exigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez pas decu. Don’t expect much, and you won’t be disappointed.

This is going to seem bitter but I don’t mean it that way, V., I’m just stating a fact here: you’ll only ever call me if I call you first. Have you noticed that? If...

rapture” – words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

You have to love what you do, to give your best.

What I mean is that those thoughts, they’re human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone’s imagined you would doesn’t mean that you’ve failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in...

A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’,Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness and sorrow…I loved the way it felt being with him, for I felt up...

Let today mark a new beginning for you. Give yourself permission to say NO without feeling guilty, mean, or selfish. Anybody who gets upset and/or expects you to say YES all of the time clearly...

Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected

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.

Even the ones who love you most will let you down. They are the ones who will disappoint you more because your expectations of them are higher. When you feel like they have let you...

A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.

It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture.Each evening I retreat from it, and I go straight to the Gospels.It’s not out of duty...

here is little Effie’s headwhose brains are made of gingerbreadwhen the judgment day comesGod will find six crumbsstooping by the coffinlidwaiting for something to riseas the other somethings did–you imagine His surprisebellowing through the general...

Nothing in life or love slipped easily into the tidy little box of his expectations.

Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar.

If you give, expecting something in return, it’s not really giving at all.If you love, expecting something in return, it’s not really loving at all.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

You can ask God for anything. He will answer you. Be patient to wait and expect the answer.

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.

He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.

Maybe that’s why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn’t so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his...

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

True happiness can only be found when you stop worrying about yourself and try to look out for those around you.Helping people can give your life meaning and joy. Don’t expect anything in return spread...

My life belongs only to me.I let go of all the expectationsthat others have of me.My life doesn’t belongto anybody, except to meand to Life itself.

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.

The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way.

I don’t like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted.

Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist. But they don’t. And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ’s apostles, they...

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

Only thing that makes us fail in all moments, expectations.

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

Time to Appreciate

The givers of true love hardly expect perfection