Quotes on High Expectations

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.