Rising Expectations Quotes

The increasing elderly population, rising expectations about what should be available, and costs of medical advancement—these are problems all countries face ...

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.

One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.

The bar raises as you go.

You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.

Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.