Browsing Topic Best Expectations Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Hope is a waking dream.

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.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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.

Love expands organically when extending a hand of kindness, and a spirit of compassion while 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.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.

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

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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.

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

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.

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

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.

Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

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.