Moderate Expectations Quotes

Know not to revere human things too much.

Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.

It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

I'm not looking to double my money with one golden opportunity.

I try to work and enjoy life, and that's about all.

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

I'm a pretty realistic person.

Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.

I have no complaints. I am comfortable and satisfied. I am not the kind of person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.

A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.

If I could achieve half as much as Broony's achieved in his career, I'll be delighted.

I always assume that nothing that I make is going to be a success, that everything I make is going to be a failure - not a failure but not some huge box- office success. If something is an artistic success, I'll be happy, but I'll maybe be the only person that's happy.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in the correct and acceptable fashion.

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.