Realistic Expectations Quotes

Realistic Expectations Quote of the day

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

We cannot all be masters.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness. ... We expect too much.

Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable and often impossible.

[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.

If we are to survive on this planet there must be compromises.

It is impossible to control creation.

Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.

For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

There's no map there's no master plan there's just people.

Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

Do not commit the error common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.

In war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently from what we had expected and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

In combat life is short nasty and brutish. The issues of national policy which brought him into war are irrelevant to the combat soldier he is concerned with his literal life chances.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.