Best Expected Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I just feel really grateful that I can pursue my dreams and also reach people in ways that I never expected.”

“When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.”

“There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.”

“When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album.”

“The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.”

“I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.”

“I never expected to make a lot of money from music.”

“Most of the time, I don't want to use anti-climatic, but sometimes you go out there thinking this is going to be the worst thing you've ever gotten yourself into, and then you get back to base and think, 'Wow, that wasn't anything like I expected.'”

“Nobody expected Darryl Glenn to win, and he's won every time.”

“I love writing in compressed time periods because the act of survival in the midst of panic and fear, that's where true heroism comes. If you have a uniform, and you're expected to do things, it's a sort of incremental heroism.”

“It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.”

“Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.”

“In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops, and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected.”

“People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.”

“Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.”

“China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.”

“I was expected to sit at the table, learn how to eat properly.”

“It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.”

“I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.”

“Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.”

“My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.”

“It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.”

“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.”

“I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.”

“I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.”

“I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.”

“I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.”

“I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.”

“Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.”

“In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.”

“Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.”

“I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.”

“I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.”

“I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.”

“We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.”

“I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.”

“My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.”

“Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.”

“I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.”

“Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.”

“Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.”

“I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.”

“I have always... expected a lot from myself.”

“I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.”

“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.”

“This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.”

“A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.”

“The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.”

“My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.”

“Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.”

“I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.”

“One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.”

“I never expected to field as much hate and negativity that I did, but it just fueled my fire and my teammates' fire.”

“I always practiced like I expected to play.”

“It isn't something I expected to be good at, but I am an amazing skier.”

“When I was growing up, I think I was expected to be seen and not heard. You're this little, nerdy kid; no one wants to hear about how sad you are. Nobody wants to hear that you feel lonely.”

“As women, we are fully expected to surrender a huge part, or all, of ourselves to motherhood.”

“Learning how to and being expected to know how to fly an international partner vehicle is quite something, especially having to do it all in Russian.”

“'Workin' Moms,' obviously, is about mothers who also work. But we're also expected to remain graceful when we return to work, and that's just impossible.”

“Nobody expected me to win Wimbledon. It was something to strive for.”

“I never expected 'Theen Maar' to have such a great opening. Pawan Kalyan is a huge star in Tollywood, but for me, it's just my second film.”

“Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.”

“I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.”

“Everyone has been supportive, loving, happy that I'm living in my truth, and just having a lot of positive things to say, which is different than what I expected.”

“I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!”

“I understand if everyone looking at me is seeing a Jew and seeing me as a kind of 'other.' But I can't be expected to see myself that way. That is, to me, Jewish is the normal way to be; it's not a type of being.”

“I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.”

“This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.”

“I never expected to live this long.”

“Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.”

“Writing 'Redeployment' shook me in ways I never expected.”

“What I love about Twitter specifically is that reciprocity is not guaranteed, nor expected. In other words, I can go one way. I can put things out. I don't have to respond to everybody.”

“I know people have won money on me before. And it wasn't because I was the guy expected to win.”

“The amount of garbage that women are expected to put up with - we're just expected to ignore when a man whistles at us. And it never makes us feel good - it always makes us feel unsafe.”

“I felt a ton of pressure in '08. A lot of great things were expected of me right out of the gate, and I brought some of that on myself with those great early results. But I wasn't a good enough player to make a run every fourth or fifth tournament. I wasn't as good a player as my ranking indicated.”

“The day when I left Barca, because of the treatment I was receiving and my character, it didn't go as I would have wished. I drifted and then just left, I'm sure people expected much more from me.”

“Nobody I know would have expected me to marry Will, and nobody he knows would have expected him to marry me because we are so opposite. Yet we're perfect for each other.”

“Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.”

“The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.”

“We're only going to invest our shareholders' money where we think they can get the kind of returns they expected when they invested their money with Exxon Mobil.”

“It's a lot for young players to be expected to deal with all the media, and... there is a lot of pressure to be perfect, but at 19, 20, 21, 22, you're still young and learning.”

“You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.”

“The support from back home has been more than I ever expected. They always knew me as the lacrosse player or the girl playing field hockey. Now they're seeing me on national TV, and they've been so supportive.”

“I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.”

“Politics is a very male-dominated, male-driven profession. I was not just a woman but a young woman, and I suppose you end up trying to behave in a way that you think is expected of you.”

“I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.”

“But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.”

“Going to Manchester United, you're expected to be the final product.”

“Time is pressing. No one gets any time these days, and the minute you step into a football club, it doesn't matter, you're expected to get going immediately.”

“I never expected to become an actor at all. You can do anything you put your mind to it!”

“I've, in so many ways, done way more than I ever expected out of life.”

“When you're a young actor, you're expected to live a transient life.”

“As women we're expected to be superhuman, especially black women.”

“You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.”

“'Saw' really was like a student film for me; we expected it to go straight to video. I never expected anyone to see that film, and then it becomes one of the most successful horror franchises.”

“I know some people expected me to be a Ballon d'Or winner.”

“On 'Masters of Sex,' especially in the pilot, everybody was showing up word-perfect, and you're expected to show up word-perfect.”

“I never expected that this would be my life.”

“People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!”

“The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.”