Do not enter where too much is anticipated. It is the misfortune of the over-celebrated that they cannot measure up to excessive expectations. The actual can never attain the imagined: for to think perfection is easy, but to embody it is most difficult. The imagination weds the wish, and together they always conjure up more than reality can furnish. For however great may be a person’s virtues, the will never measure up to what was imagined. When people see themselves cheated in their extravagant anticipations, they turn more quickly to disparagement than to praise. Hope is a great falsifier of the truth; the the intelligence put her right by seeing to it that the fruit is superior to its appetite. You will make a better exit when the actual transcends the imagined, and is more than was expected. – Baltasar Gracian
No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment. – Jude Morgan
If you can’t change your fate, change your expectations from fate.
Don’t expect things to happen. It’s better to be surprised than to be disappointed.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. – Brian Tracy
Expect nothing and you will never be disappointed.
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time. – Paulo Coelho
I don’t expect from people, but I just want a bit of respect for what I served to them.
You can’t expect everyone to have the same dedication as you. – Jeff Kinney
Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed. – Samuel P. Huntington
If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. – Sylvia Plath
You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate. – Mark Graban
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. – Douglas Adams
To expect nothing is to gain everything.
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. – Chuck Palahniuk
Expectation is the another word of the disappointment.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect. – J.K. Rowling
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations. – Bill Watterson
Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. – Chetan Bhagat
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. – Princess Diana
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