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“You can't base your life on other people's expectations.”
Stevie Wonder
“Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.”
Sara Paddison
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Happiness equals reality minus expectations”
Tom Magliozzi
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
Charles F. Kettering
“We tend to get what we expect.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
Michelangelo
“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”
Eric Hoffer
“One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.”
Tiger Woods
“Remember, our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations.”
George Bernard Shaw