Best 101 quotes in «expecting quotes» category

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

We buy expecting to hold a bond to maturity and a stock forever.

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.

Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

Act to create beauty without expecting results.

When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful.

God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God to be done on earth like it is in heaven

Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.

Don't expect everyone to admire this world is made up of hate and fire.

Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.

Don't expect anything from anyone in your life ! If you will get something then except as a surprise gift.

Expect everything to happen for your benefit yet do not insist on how it must be experienced. Allow yourselves to be surprised. Remember that what you expect with your physical mind is the least you can be offered by your all-knowing-Self.

Nature ensures joy and pain to everyone. When you are only expecting joy in your life, you can’t handle pain and any painful episode will seem to be even more painful to you. However, when you are mentally prepared for pain, it can’t make you suffer easily. If most people suffer, it is because they are always expecting pleasure and happiness in their life. Hence, when suffering knocks at their door, they are unprepared for it and suffer immense pain.

Instead of expecting an ideal world, we must learn to live in the real world. Instead of making our life miserable for the sake of others, we must learn to make our own lives joyful. We can give only what we have. If we are unhappy, we can’t make others happy. When we have no love in our heart, we can’t love anyone. You can’t gift wealth to anyone unless you earn it yourself.

My expectations for the future? A beautiful past.

Forgive your past because it the vehicle through your process and from this point forward your life is made of 100% future; Caterpillars always look up despite having no wings... and butterflies don't waste time crying over the legs they lost or dwelling on on the ground.

Instead of expecting someone from somewhere to spearhead or bring about a change that we desire, it is much more practical to begin to something personally.

I think irradiating pilots with WiFi radio frequency (RF) radiation is really going to hit about five years from now as 'Delayed Radiation Complications' show up. I am expecting to see increased airplane accidents & crashes for various reasons starting in 2020 onward.

It seems ironic, expecting the unexpected, like she had fabricated pieces of her story to make it more interesting. Considering my boredom with the current version, I can't imagine the first draft.

Things could always be, but some things will never have been.

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to buy the debilitating and fake narrative of their life, until they eventually end up on the chopping block of the inexorable truth. Be that as it may, one can “fool people some of the time, but not all of the time”. (“Bribe payers' index »)

Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt

There are two ways to avoid getting disappointed. Expect everything - or expect nothing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

You get what you expect in life. Expect great things in life. Live your best life.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

A lot of good things can come from not expecting anything.

A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it. That's what a sellout is to me.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

Certainly nobody gets married wanting to get divorced or even expecting to - except me.

But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.

Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.