Top 1200 High Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there's always going to be expectations.

The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

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

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

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come a lot more pressure.

After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.

Food lovers tend to make life difficult for themselves on their travels. It's like travelling first class, if your expectations are so high, you're bound to be disappointed.

You have expectations always when you buy players. Mostly, you have positive expectations.

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

I'm always confident, always expect high expectations for myself.

We don't use the term 'big data' - not on our website, not with customers. Saying it sets up expectations, the wrong expectations.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.

Expectations run immensely high in Croatia. We may only be a small country, but people expect us to be our best at every major tournament.

Meeting expectations is good. Exceeding expectations is better.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

We are grateful, as artists, as individuals, that people have such big expectations of us, and we are ready to take on the burden that comes with the expectations.

Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.

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.

You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.

I'm as strict as my parents - I have high expectations, too. I'd never ask the kids to do something outside their capabilities, but I'll encourage them not to be lazy and to try hard.

I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

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.

To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

People who come to see me have expectations. If I don't live up to those expectations, I'd be a failure.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

I don't really focus on other people's expectations of me. I only care what my own expectations are.

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.

I like expectations, with expectations, you have people coming at you from a place of doubt.

I'm thankful that I was able to show a better side of me in acting, and I hope that you'll continue to have high expectations for me.

A club like Arsenal, it's normal that expectations are high. This club must compete for titles, and that's what we want to do.

There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Real Madrid has a lot of high expectations, not only in terms of results but also with nice football and a lot of goals.

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.

Having stayed in Singapore for a period of time, I've seen how parents here have high expectations of their children because they want their kids to do well.

The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and themselves. If she is unskilled, she leaves scars on the lives of youth, cuts deeply into their self-esteem, and distorts their image of themselves as human beings. But if she loves her students and has high expectations of them, their self-confidence will grow, their capabilities will develop, and their future will be assured.

I like to keep my expectations low and my aspirations high in my career and my life. That way I'm pleasantly surprised more often than desperately disappointed.

Become aware of your negative expectations and practice replacing them with positive expectations.

A tour to India is different from other tours. The expectations to win are very high from our own people, and defeats and poor performances are not forgotten easily.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.

I think all of us as NBA players have expectations of ourselves that are different from expectations from external forces and sources.

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.

I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

I don't want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it's just that if we're to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware.

There is no one with higher expectations of me than myself. I cannot control other's expectations.

Many people look forward to my work, and I hope to live up to expectations and work at a high level.

This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else's expectations or lack of expectations.

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.