Expectation Quotes

“The world
was whole because
it shattered. When it shattered,
then we knew what it was.”
― Louise Glück, Vita Nova

“Oh expectation, what a frightful thing art thou, when kindled more by fear than hope!”
― Mary Shelley

“An instant is converted into a moment, minutes into hours, days pass into months, months into years, and years into centuries. This world was born and died, the universe expanded and collapsed, and sometimes I wonder if you know I am still waiting for you.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.”
― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One must take care with those who have the wit
Not only to observe the action, but see
The thought as well!”
― Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia

“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is better to have realistic expectations or in some cases hold no expectations at all.”
― Steve Peters

“Every few minutes a fresh gust of lightness sweeps through Zeno. There was that name, Hillary, but what of it? If Rex has found a Hillary, bless him. He made it out. He is alive. He has invited Zeno for “a bit of a function.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Truth is the profound actuality of existence and creation, which supersedes the mind’s idea of reality, as the mind is often corrupted by fear and lies.”
― Tara Bianca, The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism

“Love is the embodiment of profound acceptance, the recognition of oneself, another, and all of existence, free from the influence of any ideas or beliefs.”
― Tara Bianca, The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism

“Things as they are clash with things as our top-down invariant processes expect them to be. We shove sensation through the filter of the past to make the future predictable. In the process, we lose the present. But because the present is all that exists, we have lost everything in the bargain.”
― Daniel J. Siegel, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being

“When apart, enjoy their company.

Mindgames.”
― Monaristw

“Start getting rid of everything that’s dragging you down, everything you’re doing to meet other people’s expectations and demands. Those things have to go. Handle that, and you already have more time for the meaningful, important elements in your life: family, kids, health… yourself.”
― Tim S Grover

“Key elements of judgment are expectations, scrutiny and consequences (ESC).”
― Ceri Evans

“Instead of someone else’s expectations, we’re driven by our own intention. Instead of being affected by someone else’s scrutiny, we have a clear sense of where we are right now, in this moment. And instead of someone else’s consequences, we are focused on our current priority. The mental recipe for internally driven people is intention, moment, priority, or IMP.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure

“Other people can impose expectations from without, but only we can set our intent from within.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure

“What I realized about this glorious experience, years later, is that it had forever modified my expectations. The Bombers gave me a taste of what it was like to play on an excellent team.”
― Sam Walker, The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams

“The expectation is such a sword that falls on oneself”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Letting go of expectation allowed me to celebrate even the smallest victories, to be utterly in the winning moment and thankful for my current state.”
― Hillary Allen, Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds

“Brighter days are yet to come, keep on working, hoping and expecting. Dark clouds never stay long after they've poured down the rain”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Love should be limitless. But expectations should have a limit.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“Within 30 days of a new person joining my team, we take at least an hour to go through a document that contains the questions we look at here in a moment, helping me understand what makes them tick and setting expectations about their growth path over the next year.”
― Camille Fournier, 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

“All active participants in a meeting can instinctively sense progress, and when progress isn’t being made, they get cranky and start looking for the exit. A referee’s job is to shape the meeting to meet the requirements of the agenda and the expectations of the participants. Style and execution vary wildly from referee to referee, but the defining characteristics are the perceptions of the meeting participants. A good referee not only makes sure the majority of the attendees believe progress is being made, but they’re aware of anyone who doesn’t believe that progress is being made at any given moment. And they’re looking for one thing . . . people checked out.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“Live with great expectation and positive anticipation of what you want and what you hope to gain.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Healthy Thinking Habits: Seven Attitude Skills Simplified

“Do not expect; do not wait for anything from others; otherwise, it will critically disappoint and severely hurt you.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Into these loves who but for passion looks,
At this first sight here let him lay them by,
And seek elsewhere in turning other books,
Which better might his labour satisfy.

To the Reader of these Sonnets”
― Michael Drayton, Idea: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle

“I always cringe when I take a salaried job in the USA and find there is an expectation for me to work really long unpaid hours.”
― Steven Magee

“I am grateful for the doom. I'd rather share my time with the dread than have no time at all.”
― Anne Marie Wells, Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems