Quotes about Expectations

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them—after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans & expectations. It is a separation from all we have loved and lived with. It is often accompanied by much bodily pain and distress. It opens the door to judgement and eternity - to heaven or to hell. It is an event after which there is no change, or space for repentance

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think he's really gonna take away my health care."

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.