High Expectations Quotes

• High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teacher

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• High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

  Paul Hersey

  People, Expectations, Facts

  Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Dewey E. Johnson (2008). “Management of Organizational Behavior: Leading Human Resources”, Prentice Hall

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• Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hard Work

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 14, 2016

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• Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

  Todd Whitaker

  Teacher, Teaching, Expectations

  Douglas J. Fiore, Todd Whitaker (2005). “Six Types of Teachers: Recruiting, Retaining, and Mentoring the Best”, p.163, Eye On Education

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• Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

  Claude Bissell

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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  The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

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• High expectations are the key to everything.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Sam Walton Is Dead At 74; the Founder Of Wal-Mart Stores" by Thomas C. Hayes, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1992.

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• Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

  Bob Beauprez

  Teacher, Commitment, Expectations

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• Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

  Eileen Caddy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

  Shannon Miller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gymnastics

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• When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Dream, Average

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2013

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• Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 10, 2012

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• no expectations, no disappointments!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Disappointment, Expectations, Upset

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Chasing Destiny”, p.123, Penguin

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• When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

  Donald Miller

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2015

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  There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

  Jodi Picoult

  Happiness, Happy, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.897, Simon and Schuster

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• Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• High expectations is the key to everything.

  Sam Walton

  Keys, Expectations

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• Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

  Judi Dench

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Meaningful

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• Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

  Ed Westwick

  Inspirational, Relationship, Expectations

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• The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Kids, Keys, Self

  Source: www.afb.org

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• Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Animal

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

  Beth Moore

  God, Christian, Bigger And Better Things

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• It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

  Art Garfunkel

  Greatness, Men, Vision

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• I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

  Famke Janssen

  Disappointment, People, Expectations

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