Unrealistic Expectations Quotes

“Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Charles's conversation was as flat as a sidewalk, and everyone's ideas filed along it in their ordinary clothes, exciting no emotion, no laughter, no reverie. He had never been curious, he said, when he lived in Rouen, to go to the theater and see the actors from Paris. He did not know how to swim, or fence, or fire a pistol, and he could not explain to her, one day, a riding term she had come upon in a novel.

But shouldn't a man know everything, excel at a host of different activities, initiate you into the intensities of passion, the refinements of life, all its mysteries? Yet this man taught her nothing, knew nothing, wished for nothing. He thought she was happy; and she resented him for that settled calm, that ponderous serenity, that very happiness which she herself brought him.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Don't set your husband up on a pedestal and then cry when you find that he is only an ordinary man, after all.”
― Blanche Ebbutt, Don'ts for Wives

“Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it that you can patiently wait for him to make your life better, but you won't consider he is patiently waiting for you to be better?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Psychiatrists say unrealistic expectations lead to depression, but why else are we alive if not to dream? Every expectation is unrealistic until it is made a spectacular reality through inspiration, hard work, and persistence.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Having unrealistic dreams is a very good thing. Your commitment won't be like that of a person with realistic dreams.”
― Geoffrey Ocaya

“Joan Frances says her mother is perfect someone she models herself after. She is tortured because she is disobeying her mother by seeing me. Nancy reportedly told her daughter the other day, "For Mother's Day, I want a happy girl who realizes how lucky she is." Since Mother's Day is a couple of days away, it would take a miracle to deliver that present. And so the pressure and guilt continue to grow. But Joan Frances's regular calls home make me sure that Nancy offers limited support and acceptance, as well as her dose of unrealistic expectations.”
― Lynn I. Wilson, The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

“Unrealistic expectations are perilous because they are never met.”
― Shree Shambav, Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I