23 Inspirational Quotes on Expectations

To diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
-Fanny Burney

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
-William Shakespeare

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
-Orhan Pamuk

How much of human life is lost in waiting.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
-Bill Watterson

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
-Stevie Wonder

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
-Natalia Vodianova

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
-Antonio Banderas

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

For every sacrifice, there is an expectation of reward.
-Wes Fesler

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
-Ivan Illich

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.
-Sebastian Horsley

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.
-Tony Robbins

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
-Sylvia Plath

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
-Douglas Adams

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
-Florence Welch

There are two ways to be happy improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
-Paulo Coelho

Put your expectations on God, not on people.
-Joyce Meyer

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
-Brian Tracy

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.
-Dan Millman

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
-William Hazlitt

Expectations should not always be taken as reality because you never know when you will be disappointed.
-Samuel P. Huntington

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