Expectations - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations. — Stephen Covey

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots. — Paddy Ashdown

... and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it — Charles Dickens Great...

There are misplaced expectations, once you recognize those, you are only left with smart ones. To "expect yourself" to expect nothing {from others} is going against human psychology. Expectation is the root of all valid transactions and fulfillment. — Ashlecka Aumrivani

Expectations are the rumors we spread inside us. — Himanshu Chhabra

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect. — Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The thing is, Mom, the secret of happiness is low expectations. That's a good reminder, right there. If you didn't lose your husband and kids all in one year, smile! You're ahead of the game. — Barbara Kingsolver Unsheltered

Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on...

He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

This is going to seem bitter but I don't mean it that way, V., I'm just stating a fact here: you'll only ever call me if I call you first. Have you noticed that? If I call and leave a message you'll...

Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his...

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What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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