If you expect perfection from other people, your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumbling and complaints. – Bruce Barton
Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That’s a plan for success. So simple: just work. – Jim Harbaugh
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. – Charles Kettering
If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. – Sylvia Plath
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions. – A. Godin
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. – Marilu Henner
The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them – preferably in unexpected and helpful ways. – Richard Branson
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. – John C. Bogle
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations. – Bill Watterson
There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations. – Jodi Picoult
