We tend to live down to other people’s expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more difficult to obtain approval of people who hold us in high regard than to accept the lower standards that other people hold of us.
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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Jane Austen
Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.
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Steve Maraboli
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
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Patricia McCormick
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]
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Stephen Hawking
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
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Brian Tracy
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