Quotes about Expectations

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari - like they're trying to land the trophy.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

I think I want what every girl wants in a man. I would like him to be funny, honest, trustworthy. These are the basic qualities that we all look for in a man.

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes …

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

The American people are tired of being told. They're tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They're tired of hearing politicians in both parties tell us that we'll get to that tomorrow while we pile a mountain range of debt on our children and our grandchildren.

For a moment, imagine the person you hope to marry. What do they look like? Are they funny, intelligent, kind? How do you hope they are living their life right now? Would it bother you if you knew they were hooking up each weekend or had five, ten, or fifteen different partners over the past several years? Or would it make you smile if you knew they were holding out for you? Why not live your life as you would want them to live theirs? Wait for the relationship.