Set Your Expectations Low Quotes & Sayings

Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low. — Behdad Sami

Unfortunately we often get praise for things that weren't particularly difficult to achieve. If we focus on the props and encouragement of those who have low expectations for us, we become mediocre. It can be challenging to set our sights on excellence, particularly when we're hearing that we're already there. One of life's greatest lessons, which we all must learn, could be expressed in the phrase "That was nothing. Watch this." Challenge yourself and others to call the normal things normal and save that word excellent for things that really are. — Alex Harris

o not preoccupy yourself with wants or expectations. The world won't abide by the standards, you set in any case, whether you set them too low or too high. It will break them every time for the simple fact that our true essence has no desire, hope or expectation for anything. It has no selfish inclinations of any kind. Everything, it experiences, is a passing phase, not its real identity. — Anita B. Sulser PhD

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. — Alice Walker

If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all. — Jeff Kinney

No one needs to hit rock bottom to change. And yet so many people do, only because most of us are unskilled in communicating with ourselves.
Stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia, headaches, illness ... these are all symptoms of a bigger problem. You're trying to tell yourself something. Loudly.
Listen now or listen later. There is no ignoring the call. — Vironika Tugaleva

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low. — Kevin Smith

As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie. — Kate Beckinsale

Wise words are
sharper than
any sword — Elena Toledo

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave. — Pierce Brosnan

I vote. People died for our right to vote and I can't let that go. — Chris Bosh

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed". — Ayn Rand

Happiness is living by your side, and dying by your side — Maki Enjoji

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone. — Doc Rivers

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives. — Larry Elder