Expectations Vs Reality Quotes

“If there is anything important that a business owner could learn from this pandemic is to always be prepared for the unexpected.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Don't force people to live up to your dreams of who they might be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“It doesn't matter what you expected, but you must accept what reality offers to you at the end.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“To fight against these falsehoods, though, one needed to be able to see past the present-day and very male-oriented distortion lens to the underlying truth. Beyond question, Molly Valle could do this. A woman whose surface appearance, eyeglasses and conservative clothes, fit the schoolmarm stereotype to a T. Yet she had sloughed off that exterior and society’s restrictions as effortlessly as she had her clothes, and during their lovemaking, she had not only kept up with him but often passed ahead of him. With other women, he had seen the embers of passion but never the flame. Tonight, he had witnessed the bonfire.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“You can only do what you’re capable of at the time.”
― George Michael

“Push beyond your limits and surpass your own expectations.”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“The Widening Gap Between Our Fanciful Expectations and The Bitter Reality of This World Is What We Often Unknowingly Refer To, As Stress or Depression”.”
― Venugopal Acharya

“Expectations actually make us focus on what we want, instead of being happy and content with what is.”
― Ari Gunzburg, The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny

“My daydreams never let me down (217).”
― Linda Murphy Marshall, Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“Ducane knew that Willy had looked forward to this visit. He knew too that the visit was rendering Willy unspeakably miserable.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Our eyes see the future we desire
And if yearning is enough, turn blind entire
To any threats that challenge our hope.
Oh, how small indeed is Reality's scope.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?

“Maybe that was the problem - Expectations!”
― Tina Sequeira, Bhumi: A Collection of Short Stories

“At times we do crazy things. They make no sense. It reminds me of the definition of insanity, which is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results. People credit that to Einstein. I think it is true. I think people are painfully ignorant of how much they do the same thing but expect different results. Maybe willfully ignorant? However, this is a good thing. We are naturally created to do the same thing over and over. That is called consistency. My goal is to align our natural tendency with the ideas in this book, causing an adjustment to our actions which will produce a more propitious “same result”.”
― Dexter A. Daniels, Consistent, Not Different: Why We Stray from the Path and Reasons to Return

“Don't expect too much from people and you will rarely be disappointed.”
― Germany Kent

“He thought that the civil servants employed in one department were one big, happy family, concerned about one another's peace and pleasure; that going to the office was not by any means a duty that must be performed day in and day out, and that rainy weather, heat, or a mere disinclination could always be given as a legitimate excuse for not going to the office. One can easily imagine his disappointment when he discovered that nothing short of an earthquake could prevent a civil servant who was in good health from turning up at his office.”
― Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

“The issues we focus on in relationships matter far less than our expectations behind them.”
― Jamie Hallman, The Expectation Gap: Change Your Expectations to Transform Your Relationships

“Don't expect God to be at your rescue if your invitation is for the devil”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“23. I come from a worried people. These people worry and are overly cautious. The worried people are very suggestive and read the side effects on every medication to make sure they experience all of them, even the side effects experienced by the placebo people. If it only happens in males, my female people will figure out a way to have that side effect, too. My people worry out of love, though.”
― Shelley Brown, Weird Girl Adventures from A to Z

“Kind people always seem to suffer the most.”
― Stewart Stafford

“We expect people to behave in a particular way, and then get upset when they don’t. We then blame that unhappy feeling on them, when the actual cause was our own expectation.”
― David Johnson, A Practical Guide to Mindful Living

“Remind yourself that you can take neither the full credit nor blame for the outcomes in your life. There is always a factor of randomness involved. However, you should try your best, be proactive, and strive toward having a sense of control in life.”
― F. R. Amoeno, 55 Life Lessons from Amoeno’s Island

“Measure your expectations of where someone is and not where you are.”
― Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai

“We're never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“When you exceed expectations day in and day out, it’s not only fantastic for others, it says a lot about you.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“Dear love, what you expect from me is my expectation from you.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“We can't possibly know—and thank goodness not! What most of us become as adults would terrify us as children.”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K

“It hurts when high hopes meet the deep sea.”
― Jayant Chopra

“You’ve built it up so much in your head that you’re afraid the reality won’t measure up, so you keep everyone at arm’s length.”
― Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love

“By abandoning your unhealthy expectations which pit your ideals against your reality, you may be able to reduce the mismatches that have led to your internal conflicts.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“It was the first time I had ever seen the ocean and it did not appear as formidable and indestructible as I thought it would. The wooden pier that had been thrust through the water, the oil tankers on the horizon, were all so dull. There was nothing special or unknown underneath those waters, no crashing waves, no wise currents, no deep blue; only a sulphuric stink mixed with a faint fishy ammonia that was thrown around by a hacking gust.”
― Scott Pearce, The Rider on the Bridge