Lower Expectations Quotes

The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you'll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you'll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment.

You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. "Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.

America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence.

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

The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion the frustration will become smaller. A day will come when there will be no expectation; then you will never come across any frustration.

The pressure of chasing 230 is naturally always less compared to chasing 300.

Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government - toward a culture of mediocrity.

I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower.

Lower standards tell students that they don't need to work hard and leave more high school students unprepared for college and the workplace.

If you want to go to a school with lower requirements, it doesn't diminish the education.

We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.