There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations – Jodi Picoult
Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself. – Bo Bennett
Never get too attached to anyone unless they also feel the same towards you because one sided expectations kill you.
If you are absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.
In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear – Mehmet Murat
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. – Calvin Coolidge
Expectation is the root of all heartaches. – Willaim Shakespeare
Never expect too much from a friend and you will never want for one. – Sophie Irene Loeb
I hope you do not let anyone else’s expectations direct the course of your life. – Julianne Donaldson
Never expect. Never ask. Never demand. Just let it be. If it’s meant to be, it will happen.
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. – Alexander Hamilton
Sometimes the best relationships are the ones you never expected to be in. The ones that sweep you off of your feet and change every view you have ever had.
Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. – Lionel Shriver
Don’t expect to see a change if you don’t make one.
I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sometimes we create our own heartbreaks through expectations.
My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself. – Beyonce
Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger. – David Rudisha
Look how often the unexpected happens – yet we still never expect it. – Ashleigh Brilliant
When you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you’re free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up. – Richard Carlson
Give all your love to all the person’s in your life but don’t expect the same in return.
I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn’t go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you’re hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know. – Clint Eastwood
You will end up disappointed if you think people will do for you as you do for them. Not everyone has the same heart as you.
At times what you expect and what happens don’t match.
The faster you accept and adapt to what happened & work towards creating what you believed, that what you expected gets created in a whole new way. – Sujit Lalwani
Don’t expect to receive if you are not willing to give.
We’re wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn’t, we start looking around for the real world. – Lev Grossman
I don’t expect you to agree with everything I say, but I do expect you to know that I have my own view of things.
People say that never expect anything in return from anyone, but the truth is when we really love someone we naturally expect a little care from them.
Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed. – Samuel P. Huntington
Things are as they are, we suffer because we expected different.
If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away. – Confucius
Do everything with a good heart and expect nothing in return, and you will never be disappointed. – Budha
Sometimes you don’t need to hear their excuses or what they have to say for themselves because their actions already spoke the truth.
Be realistic with your expectations. I’d really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it ain’t going to happen. – India Knight
Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfillment. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don’t expect too much from people, the less you expect, the less disappointed you will be when they let you down.
The key to happiness is low expectations.
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected. – Norton Juster,
If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything.
Peace begins when the expectations ends. – Budha
It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. – Victoria Moran
Don’t expect mangoes when you are planting papayas.
True giving means you never expect anything back.
The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way. – George R. Stewart
