40 phrases of expectations that will help you dream with your feet on the ground

Raise unicorns, but don’t raise expectations.

If the expectation is not yours, don’t try to meet it.

But please don’t put too many expectations on me. I don’t want to let them down any more than I already have.

Kiera Cass

Creating expectations on top of what doesn’t exist is the worst human mistake.

Sometimes I turn off my cell phone just so I don’t expect anything. It gives me peace!

Even expectations must be analyzed realistically, because only then will they not be the cause of great disappointments.

Fernanda R. Silva

Filled with expectations, overflowed with disappointments.

No one is responsible for the expectations you create.

I hate creating expectations, because inevitably I always end up getting hurt. It’s like diving headfirst into a shallow pool.

I wish I didn’t have expectations.

Expectation is the greatest impediment to living: it takes us to tomorrow and makes us lose the present.

seneca

Learn not to need anyone. Create few expectations and expect less from people. It’s better to be surprised than disappointed.

An unfulfilled expectation is one of the most painful things I’ve ever felt.

Having an expectation in God is knowing that He will do the best for me and that it may be different from what I expect or desire. It’s still the best.

I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine.

Don’t get your hopes up, I’ve heard that they cause tears.

Renato Russo

Don’t let your high expectations take away the beauty of the simplicity of the moment.

Fernanda R. Silva

I don’t know if I’m upset with him for letting me down or with me for having expectations.

The most effective way to hurt yourself is the habit of creating expectations.

Nobody cares much about the present. Memories and expectations fill almost all of our moments.

Samuel Johnson

I don’t want to think, I don’t want to make plans, I don’t want to create expectations. I just want the days to pass.

Expectations are always distressing, reality never matches our fantasy.

Martha Medeiros

Don’t feed expectations on top of vague signs and uncertain faces.

Fabiola Simões

A very high expectation can cause even greater suffering.

Fernanda R. Silva

She plants self-love where she planted expectations.

Nobody is born made. A person is born with a lot of expectations, a lot of ideas from other people and has to work through it all.

VS Naipaul

I don’t want promises. Promises create expectations and expectations smudge makeup and compress stomachs.

Fernanda Mello

Have hope, but don’t create expectations.

A person is all the more loved the more he moderates his expectations of the minds and hearts of others.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Don’t let exaggerated expectations pull you away from reality.

Fernanda R. Silva

Excessive expectation is the shortest path to frustration.

Martha Medeiros

I hate that expectation. Waiting, trusting and not knowing what will happen.

Nicholas Sparks

Reducing as much as possible expectations regarding our means, whatever they may be, is therefore the surest way to escape great unhappiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Not creating expectations or expecting anything from anyone is the easiest way to avoid future disappointments.

When it has to happen, it just happens. Don’t expect anything, don’t create expectations. You might be surprised.

People are full of qualities, but also flaws, so don’t have expectations, just live!

Only those who have suffered for creating expectations know the pain of something that never came true.

Fernanda R. Silva

Stop creating expectations on others, create on yourself, because you are the only one who can do something for yourself.

Being honest with yourself is a great way to fulfill your expectations and be at peace with your choices.

Love without haste, let go of expectations and don’t let problems anguish you beyond measure.

Pedro Bial