Quotes about Expectations

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.

Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they'd been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. You get what you pay for.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had a right to express her anger and her sorrow and her bewilderment and her rage, and generally to disintegrate. These were not the expectations of her friends and family. Nothing could have been further from her expectations of herself. Instead, she threw herself into serving others.

I wonder if she allowed the man to see her eagerness and scared him? Possibly her failure to wait quietly caused him to curtail the friendship.