[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.
Some expectation are inevitable but the problem happens when we are not able to measure the likelihood of reciprocation or fulfillment. We fail as measuring instruments, and so we drag & impose our ex...
Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.
What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.
To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
Men expect too much do too little.
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the mi...
We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
There is no such thing as something for nothing.
Be Happy & Appreciate Every Little Thing You Have/Get Because When You Get The Big Thing, The Happiness Would Be Unbound....
For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and...
A hero is a man who does what he can.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.
Let go of all expectations, and you shall never be disappointed. I find that rather disappointing to never be disappointed is very expected. Therefore let's only let go of those expectations we know w...
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.
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