Expect Quotes

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

Oren Arnold

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Aesop

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country

Elvin Stackman

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Michael Jordan

How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish.

Catherine Pulsifer

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Ram Dass

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone.

William Blake

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

Lewis H. Lapham

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

William Somerset Maugham

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

Sherwood Anderson

Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.

Confucius

Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back.

Unknown

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?

Henry David Thoreau
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