Quotes and Sayings about Expectations

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 3 Episode 13

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Ivan Illich

Hope

Let experience wash over you, absorb it like a sponge. Expect nothing, only then can you be prepared for anything.

Altered Carbon - Season 1 Episode 1

No expectations, no disappointments.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Disappointment

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.

Christopher Miller

Wise Sayings

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings

Don't place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.

Jared Padalecki

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Ryan Reynolds

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Alexander Pope

Satisfaction

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Antonio Banderas

Frustration

The most amazing things that can happen to a human being will happen to you, if you just lower your expectations.

Phil Dunphy in Modern Family

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Disappoint someone - whatever. And disappoint the world. But never disappoint yourself!

Benny Severide in Chicago Fire - Season 1 Episode 13

Disappointment

Experience has taught me that wishful thinking only leads to disappointment.

Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time

Disappointment

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Robert Burns

Disappointment

We all have to live with our disappointments. I have to sleep with mine.

Al Bundy in Married... with Children - Season 3 Episode 5

Disappointment

You can't dwell on disappointment. You've got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.

AJ Tracey

Disappointment

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

Loretta Young

Failures & Mistakes Disappointment

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

Henry Winkler

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

Louis C. K. - 2017

Relationships Marriage

The body is a slave to its impulses.

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy

Doesn't matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives, Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point: All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all of that is what keeps us moving forward, it's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we can step up.

Alex Karev in Grey's Anatomy - Season 5

Beginning Scars

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Ivan Illich

Doctors & Medicine

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Faith Hope Sun

It's not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It's the good ones.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

Memories

Most people built walls to protect themselves. Dean did it to protect everyone else.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship - it's whatever you can imagine.

Christopher Miller

Lego

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit

Greed Wise Sayings

Tress considered herself to be categorically boring. She liked her tea lukewarm, she went to bed on time, she loved her parents, occasionally squabbled with her little brother, and didn't litter. She was fair at needlepoint, and had a talent for baking. But had no other noteworthy skills. She didn't train at fencing in secret, she couldn't talk to animals, she had no hidden royalty or deities in her lineage. Though her great-grandmother Glorf had once reportedly waved at the king.

Brandon Sanderson in Tress of the Emerald Sea

Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer

Sad Quotes

There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

Jared Padalecki

Babies

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Alexander Pope

Anger

Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind.

J.D. in Scrubs

Remorse Satisfaction

The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.

Antonio Banderas

Greed Satisfaction

Frustration and boredom are great motivators to seek out other pleasures. Human behavior is quite predictable.

Virginia Wilson in 1899 - Season 1 Episode 3

Boredom Frustration

The good news is, Luke has his bike.
More good news, I taught some random kid a valuable lesson by stealing his bike.

Phil Dunphy in Modern Family - Season 1 Episode 3

Sometimes I don't know if I love how much I fear Claire, or fear how much I love her.

Phil Dunphy in Modern Family - Season 5 Episode 1

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