Top 660 Expectations Quotes

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.
Lawrence Kohlberg
I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there’s always going to be expectations.
Stephanie Sigman
People have certain expectations from me, and I want to do different characters.
Disha Patani
Oh, it is a boon to have a lineage like mine. Of course there’s additional responsibility, and I have to live up to expectations all the time, but that’s fine with me.
Naga Chaitanya
To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients’ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.
Anthony Hitt
I live in New York and I love it, because it doesn’t make me feel like my life is always just about acting and that world of acting. I don’t have expectations.
Sebastian Stan
When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren’t met.
Mitch Kapor
I look primarily at my own expectations. These include improving steadily.
Mario Gotze
Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.
Greg Boyle
I remember the absolute joy I used to get out of writing. The purity of imagining something and then putting it down on paper – it was such a pleasure. I read whatever I could get my hands on, from ‘Great Expectations’ to ‘The Thorn Birds.’
Liane Moriarty
Pressure is there with any release of mine. It’s more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
Mahesh Babu
Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.
Mary Pierce
Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.
Arjen Robben
I don’t have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
Michael Landon
Quality that significantly exceeds the customer’s expectations doesn’t seem to pay off. This ‘delight the customer’ stuff isn’t rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.
Tahl Raz
I don’t have any expectations of anything.
Peter Capaldi
There’s a difference between expectations and aspirations.
Alex Kapranos
I always kept my expectations in life very tame.

I always kept my expectations in life very tame.
Hannah Gadsby
Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary as well as the impossibly high beauty standards that I, and my female peers, measured myself against.
Janet Mock
Ben Kingsley was my ideal choice for Gandhi, and he really lived up to the expectations of an international audience. I did not find any Indian actor worthy to perform the role of Gandhi in the early Eighties, though there were brilliant performers like Naseeruddin Shah in India.
Richard Attenborough
I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.
Jonathan Levine
The Arab world was ripe with hope during the spring of 2011. Journalists, academics, and the general population were brimming with expectations of a bright and free Arab society within their respective countries.
Jamal Khashoggi
A tour to India is different from other tours. The expectations to win are very high from our own people, and defeats and poor performances are not forgotten easily.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
The only way I can meet expectations of myself and what I think I am capable of is to make sure my game is in order and I am doing things that allow me to perform at my best, to make sure my training is good, to make sure I am focused on watching the ball and not worried about the external expectations.
Jos Buttler
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
Samuel Alexander
There’s no expectations at all. Every single person that turns up to a show, you really appreciate them. Every single radio interview you do – everything.
Freya Ridings
We feel pressure from every angle to meet expectations, but the pressure also pushes us in a positive was as well.
Momo Hirai
At UCLA, there will always be high expectations. That’s why you want to play here or coach here.
Ben Howland
In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren’t just covering a story, they’re a part of it – influencing outcomes, setting expectations, framing candidates – and despite what they tell themselves, it’s impossible to both be a part of the action and report on it objectively.
Michael Hastings
My father grew up very conservative, and he really had set expectations for what boys and girls were supposed to be like. So when I came out to him, that did not fit into his plan of what raising twin boys was going to be like.
Nicole Maines
I know everyone wants to see India winning on home soil, be it in hockey or cricket. But sometimes with expectations come pressure, which can affect our performance.
Sandeep Singh
I’m not a birthday person. Maybe because I don’t like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it’ll turn out to be.
Ranbir Kapoor
Everything this series is being built up to be – I think it’s going to live up to those expectations.
Matthew Hayden
At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment – this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.
Tullian Tchividjian
It’s hard to live up to the expectations. Besides that, I think I had a very good NBA career, and I’m proud of it. I might not have been an absolute monster, but I thought I did pretty good.
Christian Laettner
When I look at my daughter, who’s 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
Frances O’Grady
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Wendy Wasserstein
Nobody’s expectations are going to be more than mine.
Ezekiel Elliott
One of the virtues of ‘The X-Men’ was that it managed to transcend the expectations and prejudices of the medium. It appealed to a vaster audience than anyone had ever anticipated from any superhero book, much less ‘X-Men.’
Chris Claremont
I have high expectations for myself – as an athlete, as a man, as an individual – and wrestling has helped me build a lot of character knowing that I have to remain humble but also fight complacency.
Jordan Burroughs
The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you’re just focusing on the project at hand.
Kaya Scodelario
Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
Nas
We live in a world that builds people’s expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.
Sam Allardyce
And indeed if you think you’re a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you’re no good, you’re not going to get anywhere.
Diana Wynne Jones
The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us.
Mark Manson
I never had any expectations. When I was 11, I just wanted to play for England. I didn’t know when it would happen, how it would happen. I picked that dream, and I wanted that dream.
Karen Carney
If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.
Amity Shlaes
I’m not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that’s great, it also imposes certain pressures.
Sally Hawkins
White people in North America live in a social environm

White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress.
Robin DiAngelo
I really believe my films are going to be successful, that I’m making ‘The Blair Witch Project’ – something that will transcend expectations and resonate with people.
Ryan Gosling
As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents’ expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
Hallie Ephron
One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you’re constantly surprised. You never know what’s going to happen, and it’s certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.
Jeff Bridges
There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it’s very hard to meet those expectations. That’s been a big stress in my life.
Shawn Mendes
It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m just going, ‘Any moment, someone’s going to find out I’m a total fraud, and that I don’t deserve any of what I’ve achieved. I can’t possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone’s expectations of me are.’
Emma Watson
I’ve done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That’s one way to work through people’s expectations of you.
Haley Joel Osment
The pressure and hype is created by the media. Of course, expectations are there and we cannot stop that nor change yourself for expectations. We just continue making films.
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