Alice Walker Quotes, Fall Quotes, Expectations Quotes

Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

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Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

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You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

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Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

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If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

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prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

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I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

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