Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Chinmoy

Peace begins When expectation ends.

Ron Kaufman

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Thomas Malthus

Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled.

Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations.

Rajneesh

The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death. All these are fictions just for you to survive somehow. But this survival is not how you are supposed to be. Existence has not given you birth just to live in hopes. You can be really ecstatic this moment, and there is no other moment. Meditation is, Zen is living now and here.

Rajneesh

Each moment brings new surprises to the one who has no expectations, who comes with an absolutely open mind. Then incredible things start happening. Even if you had wanted them you could not have expected them; you could not have found yourself worthy enough to expect them.

Rajneesh

Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.

Rajneesh

All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind. When there is no mind, there is no sinner and no saint, and the gift simply showers on you.

Rajneesh

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

Rob Zombie

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

William Ralph Inge

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

William J. H. Boetcker

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

Vinny Testaverde

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

Will Cotton

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

Wes Moore

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

Wes Moore

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

Zhuangzi

You are still guided by your expectations.

Yvette Nicole Brown

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

Wendell Berry

We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

Wolfgang Puck

Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.

William P. Young

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.