Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.
Men expect too much do too little.
Do someone a favour, you make a friend; favour 'em too much, you make an enemy.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.
Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.
Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon f...
Nothing shatters the relationship between you and your boss like you failing to meet expectations, deadlines, and goals.
Expectations are nothing more than the rules we set, in order to maintain our ego and self esteem. What we seek from others is often that fulfillment of what we believe we require for happiness. Howev...
It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
a lot of happiness lead a person to disappointments.
Plans are fragile things, and life often dashes expectations to the ground.
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...
I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
If you expect perfection from other people your whole life is a series of disappointments grumbling and complaints. If on the contrary you pitch your expectations low taking folks as the ineffici...