I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.
Dalai Lama
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Fritz Perls
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Customer-based measures are important, but they must be translated into measures of what the company must do internally to meet its customers expectations.
David P. Norton
Feminism has transformed the lives and aspirations of the majority of women in ways unmeasurable by statistics... raising women's intellectual,economic and political expectations, increasing intolerance of wife beating, rape and other violence against women, redefining women's sexuality.
Linda Gordon
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
Samuel Johnson
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
Leo Buscaglia
Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
Unknown
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have
Stephen Hawking
People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
Richard Thalheimer
Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
John Akers
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono
High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton