Browsing Topic Best Expectations Quotes

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles – someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.

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.

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

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.

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.

Hope is a waking dream.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

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

Do everything with a good heart, and expect nothing in return, and you will never be disappointed.

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

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.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

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

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.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I can endure my own despair, but not another’s hope.

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

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

May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit.

The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. …that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you’ll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you’ll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment.

I don’t have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.

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

If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them, especially their parents and their teachers.

When there’s a good fit between skills and expectations, there’s what we call compatibility, and we would expect a good outcome. When there’s a poor fit between expectations and the capacity of the kid, there is incompatibility, and that’s when we see people exhibit challenging behavior.

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.

Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

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

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

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?’