Quotes about Expectations

High expectations are the key to everything.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.

My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.

For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

I did everything that might be expected from a person entirely ignorant of God's righteousness who works to build his own self-righteousness.

That was just the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.