John C. Maxwell Quotes

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

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

A lot of kids get disappointed. They expect me to be, like, 'Bwaah.' 'If I spend a minute with them, they end up saying, 'Wow, you're a nice, normal guy.' They hate it when they catch me out of my makeup.

Some people will always be disappointed.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

I can't tell you how excited I was when I joined my first book club, but I can tell you how much I immediately regretted it.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.