Quotes about Expectations

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

They have seen in his [Senator Stephen A. Douglas's] round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. . . . Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.

Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

My mom and I never thought that I would make my way into Bollywood. I was happy doing films down south.

Bollywood has not utilised my potential! But unfortunately, we can't plan and have things our way.

The difficult bosses - the ones that have been hard for me to work for - have been the ones where I never knew what success meant.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

Success is a gift, but it's a handicap at the same time, I think.