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