Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised — Daniel Defoe
The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting — Andy Warhol
Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for. — Barbara Brown Taylor
Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level. — Eileen Caddy
You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want? — Mark Victor Hansen
Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation. — Catherine Booth
In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect. — Tristan Bernard
I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. — Brandon Sanderson
Life is largely a matter of expectation. — Horace
Top 10 Expecting Something Quotes
When you are out observing on the gemba, do something to help them. If you do, people will come to expect that you can help them and will look forward to seeing you again on the gemba. — Taiichi Ohno
Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today. — Joel Osteen
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something. — Bill Parcells
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined. — Nicholas Sparks
There are Millions of people in this world. Then why are you born? The reason is, Allah is expecting something from you, which is not possible by Millions. — Shahid Afridi
Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it. — Damon Dash
You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen. — Beth Moore
When you start something, you’re gonna suck at it. You should expect to suck. It would be unreasonable for you to be good if you haven’t done it before. — Alex Hormozi
Expecting Something Image Quotes
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Expecting Something Different Quotes
The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different. — Stephen Covey
You can't expect something different from someone who hasn't done anything to change. Don't stunt your growth waiting on someone who doesn't want to grow with you. — Tony Gaskins
I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected. — Bryan Adams
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic. — Joan Lunden
I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you really want to do something different, don't be afraid to do so. Think of music itself and not the rules or expectations of people. — Charlie Albright
A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations. — Merlin Mann
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect. — Lou Barletta
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues. — Alfred North Whitehead
When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer. — Joel Coen
I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new. — Bill Kreutzmann
What To Expect When You're Expecting Quotes
I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass? — Anthony De Mello
It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself. — Deepak Chopra
When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway. — Hugh Jackman
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
People are surprised that I'm nice and it helps me out a little bit; it's easy to be nice when everyone thinks you're going to be a jerk but if people think you're a nice guy then it's tough because it's what they expect. — Anthony Jeselnik
Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! — Jonathan Richman
You're less apprehensive when you know what to expect. Also, the first flight is very important in this performance-driven culture I work in; it establishes your reputation. If you don't do well, it's probably your last flight. — Julie Payette
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
I really value the freedom I have as a Christian that's an artist but not necessarily a Christian artist. I think it can be hard to express certain things about faith when there are a pretty specific set of expectations around what you need to talk about and how you're talking about it. — Ben Rector
When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else. — Leah Chase
It's always great when you're able to give fans what they expect and even a little more. — Ice Cube
It has to be fun for you when you see somebody at a distance and you take their opinion of what they're going to be like and then you go interview them, and they're totally different. You're like, wow, I didn't expect that. — John Calipari
Expecting Baby Quotes
My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. — Chuck Nevitt
Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring. — Jim Bunning
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes. — Clive Bell
Expect nothing, appreciate everything.
It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait. — Emily Procter
If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain. — Jimmy Reed
When you're expecting a baby, there's a lot you can plan for, but when it happens early you just have to jump into it. Whatever plans you had, everything goes out the window. — Rob Huebel
Look for something positive in every day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.
Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does. — Helen Fielding
It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason, "Shivers" gets a huge response. I was not expecting it. When I start singing in the middle of "Baby Get Worse", they go nuts. Just little surprises like that. — John Britt Daniel
My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear. — Emo Philips
Either the Baby Boomers are not going to have the retirement life that they expect or taxpayers are going to be hit with a tremendously huge bill. Or both. — John C. Goodman
Expecting Something In Return Quotes
Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return. — Katharine Hepburn
I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it. — Misha Collins
Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return. — Simon Sinek
To be yourself in a world that in constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt. — David Cottrell
The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted. — Sherry Argov
Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I gotta stop treating people like I owe them something.
Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive. — David
When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government. — Bob Dole
They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us. — Kamila Shamsie
Do something nice for somebody. Do something nice for God. Do something nice for the earth - and don't expect anything in return or you will suffer. — Frederick Lenz
Expecting Things Quotes
Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it. — Vincent de Paul
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God. — William Carey
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! — Andrew Murray
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. — William Penn
I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth. — Sonia Sotomayor
Every single success you experience is a combination of two things: your effort and Allah's help. When you don't put in enough effort, Allah does not give His barakah. And sometimes you might put in a lot of effort but you may not see the result you expected. That, also, is Allah's barakah. — Nouman Ali Khan
Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom. — Lilias Trotter
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. — Michael Jordan
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude. — Etty Hillesum
Hoping For Something Quotes
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. — Barack Obama
It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together. — John Lewis
God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey. — Melanie Klein
„Everyone wants to believe that there’s something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life. — Meg Cabot
Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried — Terry Fox
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. You've gotta do something and you've gotta do something fast. You just sitting around talking about it and hoping for things to get better isn't going to do anything. — Andrew Tate
Don’t hope for better. Just be better. Be something better. Be more compassionate, more resilient, more humble, more disciplined. — Mark Manson
The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world. — Sargent Shriver
Expecting More Quotes
I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life. — Laverne Cox
Give more than is expected. Love more than seems wise. Serve more than seems necessary. Help more than is asked. — Cory Booker
Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return — Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. — Ralph Marston
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. — Lee Iacocca
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach. — Lee Iacocca
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. — Cadet Maxim
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. — Claude Bissell
As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow. — Allyson Schwartz
Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward. — Dorothy Day
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. — Charles Kettering
We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids. — Pedro Noguera
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error. — Linus Pauling
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. — Orson Welles
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations. — Shakti Gawain
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. — Thomas Sowell
Parental or societal pressure, belief systems, and unwarranted expectations come along and overwrite some of the original programming. The 'you' who started out happily cooing in your crib, playing with your toes, gets caught up in a flurry of misconceptions and illusions. Happiness becomes a mysterious goal you seek but can’t quite grasp, rather than something simply there for you each morning when you open your eyes. — Mo Gawdat
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. — Lyn Nofziger
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. — Wendy Wasserstein
There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something they can ever understand. And it's not as if we are ever going to be accepted. We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else. — Junot Diaz
Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!! — Red McCombs
There’s something amazing about unbelief – it is able to fulfill its own expectations. Unbelief is safe because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. Then, after a person gets the answer for their unbelief, they can say, I told you so. — Bill Johnson
I hope people don’t know what to expect from us, except for something better than before. We want to be unpredictable. — Lisa Manoban
An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire. — Paul J. Meyer
When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new. — Rickson Gracie
When you expect something, when you aim at something, right there you dilute your energy; you split your energy, you split your attention and it becomes more than the place of yin and yang. You do not only divide, but you create the problem. — Taizan Maezumi
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. — Bill Gates
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable. — Mona Hatoum
Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is
unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected. — William Shatner
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. — P. D. James
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed. — Nouman Ali Khan
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else. — Unknown
Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome. — John Wooden
I expected something a little more castle-shaped," said Jamie. Nothing lasts forever," Nick said. "Except demons, of course." Has anyone ever told you that you're a charming conversationalist?" Jamie asked. No," Nick replied honestly. I cannot tell you how much that surprises me," Jamie told him, and Nick gave him a half smile. — Sarah Rees Brennan
I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness. — Steve Nash
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to be lived with eager expectation of its goodness, not in dread of its challenges. — Joan D. Chittister
And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose — Amy Tan
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