Top 1200 Unrealistic Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group.

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations?

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.

Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.

I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

I want success. I have expectations and want to look back on a career I can be proud of.

I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

My last name is all I have. I try to carry that to a high standard by setting high expectations.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.

I try to keep up to my producers' expectations. Sometimes, I can; sometimes, I cannot.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.

In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.

Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.

The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward - neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

With each game's release, I think the expectations get higher and higher for the next, and rightfully so.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. Dreams fulfilled are imperfect. And, Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous.

Whether it's a guy getting a big contract, getting a franchise deal, that comes with expectations.

When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.

A brand should live up to the expectations of people; it should deliver what it promises.

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.