Expecting Too Much Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver, Susan Cheever, May Sarton and many others.

He warned Mother not to flout God’s Will by expecting too much of us. “Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,’ he still loves to say, as often as possible. ‘It’s hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
There is no such thing as expecting too much.
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.