When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful...
Expectation kills. Just go with the flow, you might be surprised when something better comes along in an unexpected way.
It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.
Expectations are the rumors we spread inside us.
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...
I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
Never expect anything from anyone, if you wants to live a happy life.
Expectation is faith in motion: you expect the things you hope for to happen.
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.
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
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...
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.
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.
He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.