Quotes about Expectations

She glared at Mama through her tears, wondering why she couldn't be thankful instead of resentful. Hildie knew what it was like to try to please Mama, never measuring up to expectations. For once, she didn't care. "Why do you have to be so mean to him?

She said: "My Uncle Malky used to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees.

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.

During my teens and early 20s, I proved to be anything but what most people expected Billy Graham's son to be. I'm so thankful he never gave up on me or quit loving me.

Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.

No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

Sometimes to get your life back, you have to face the death of what you thought your life would look like.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.