All Quotes By Tag: Expectations

“Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.”

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”

“Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”

“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]”