Best Expectations Quotes

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Love expands organically when extending a hand of kindness, a spirit of compassion, and expecting nothing in return.

Perhaps we’re too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

I have been bent and broken, but I hope, into a better shape.

Hope is a waking dream.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one’s own needs to that of the other’s, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

I’m not interested in meeting people’s expectations, and I’m not interested in pleasing people.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can’t worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

That level of expectation that I’m going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

There’s no magic bullet; there’s no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I’m letting go of those expectations, and that’s opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over ‘Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?’

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?

No one rises to low expectations

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I’m trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.

I like when the manuscript keeps its authentic style and form, so even if I have accepted some advice from editors, I don’t really want to adapt the manuscript to the needs and expectations of the readers.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.