Do someone a favour, you make a friend; favour 'em too much, you make an enemy.
God honors and blesses people of action beyond expectations.
Nothing shatters the relationship between you and your boss like you failing to meet expectations, deadlines, and goals.
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.
Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.
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...
Not always what you expect is what you wanted
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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...
If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Behind every "I don't expect anything from you",there are buried expectations.
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living cr...
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
Moderation in war is imbecility.
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
Plans are fragile things, and life often dashes expectations to the ground.
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography...