Expectations Quotes - Page 37

• Today I will honor, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that I need to be true to myself. I will break free of the hold that others-and their expectations-ha ve on me.

  Melody Beattie

  Confused, Honor, And Love

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• In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.

  Nelson Mandela

  Order, Exceed, Nations

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• When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be present in this moment because you're no longer looking to the next one. Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Secret, Want

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Aug 20, 2010

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• Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known.

  Peter Johnston

  Children, Important, Tests

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• When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Teacher, Fall, Being Alone

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• Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Dream, Memories, Revenge

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• Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

  Don Roff

  Trying, Sometimes, Torture

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• How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears all that he does, and knows his secret open affairs, and that he will be made to stand before Allah, answerable for all his deeds - how can one be certain and aware of all of this, and yet persist upon things which displease Allah; persist upon abandoning Allah’s orders, neglecting His rights, and yet claim that he has good expectation of Allah?

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Order, Rights

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• One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

  Gay Hendricks

  Inspirational, Punishment, Rewards

  Gay Hendricks, Kathlyn Hendricks (2009). “Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Committment”, p.118, Bantam

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• The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at adulthood; between the time we leave doubt and arrive at faith. It is like the time when a trapeze artist lets go the bars and hangs in midair, ready to catch another support: it is a time of danger, of expectation, of uncertainty, of excitement, or extraordinary aliveness.

  Paul Tournier

  Letting Go, Home, Artist

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• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  Sam Abell

  Lessons, Photographer, Given

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.

  Ralph Marston

  Each Day, Something New

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• Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

  Judith Rodin

  Way, Fulfilled

  Judith Rodin (1992). “Body Traps: Breaking the Binds that Keep You from Feeling Good about Your Body”, William Morrow & Company

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• Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Animal

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• Ignoring expectations makes you look at the world in a fresh way.

  K. K. Barrett

  Looks, World, Way

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• Ignoring the expectations is what leads you realize the true potential

  K. K. Barrett

  Realizing, True Potential

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• The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.

  David Richo

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others. Instead of these popular strategies, we learn to simply stay present opening in the moment - with nothing in the way - so we can experience life as it occurs.

  David Richo

  Letting Go, Attachment, Meditation

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking.

  Larry Dossey

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Impact

  Larry Dossey (2009). “Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide.

  Murad Wilfried Hofmann

  Islamic, Community, Growth

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• School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only
  dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish
  them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because
  they worked hard enough to reach them.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, School, Giving

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• If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up.

  Richard Branson

  Struggle, Moving, Opportunity

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• Let what you give come through you rather than from you. There is no lack this way. Be truly unconditional in what you give so that there can be no fear or loss. ... If you experience conflict, lack, or struggle today, let go of expectations, demands, and aiming to get something. Give yourself unconditionally . The Unconditioned Self is never diminished, and you cannot lose.

  Robert Holden

  Letting Go, Struggle, Loss

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• Become aware of your negative expectations and practice replacing them with positive expectations.

  Debbie Ford

  Practice, Negative, Positive Expectations

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• A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Husband, Hands, Wife

  "Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother". Book by Carolyn Mahaney, 2003.

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