Quotes of: Low-expectations Keyword

when life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

Twilight

Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

Uglies

Still, though reading absorbed her, what the Queen had not expected was the degree to which it drained her of enthusiasm for anything else.

The Uncommon Reader

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Venus in Arms

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Villette

Your partner is your deepest mirror: do not expect them to change. Healing yourself, you heal your relationship.

We are human angels

Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too,” I said. “But he went on. I expect you to do the same.

The Wind Through the Keyhole

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

The Way of Kings

Service I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia el-Adawia.

The Way of the Sufi

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Why We Can't Wait

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

Hillary Clinton

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.

Holt McCallany

The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

Marc Faber

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Neil LaBute

Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.

Patti LuPone

Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she's not the best singer in the world, but she's got where she has through hard work.

Rick Astley

I feel pressure every day. It is only pressure that I put on myself, but I would expect all professional sportspeople to feel pressure to perform their best whenever they are at work.

Tony McCoy

On the road to success some will always expect tragedy ... ditch your doubts and experience success with Cosmic Ordering.

Cosmic Ordering Connection

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

First Comes Marriage

If your belief system, mission, values and attitude are poisoned or contaminated, then expect whatever you enjoy and perceive as success to be short-lived.

Making Success Deliberate