Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way others' expectations can be avoided.

To free us from the expectations of others to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great singular power of self-respect.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

In life and in movies it's a similar challenge where you have expectations and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations and then you have to adjust those expectations and it can be a very unnerving confusing time.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy healthy and rewarding life.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.