Explore 'Expectation'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Jean Cocteau

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.

Jeph Jacques

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels’ bread when found.

William Macneile Dixon

The public wants to know why or why not. They don’t want to know how you’re going to do it.

Frank Luntz

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

1st Baron Brooke

Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

Gabriel García Márquez

You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.

MaryJanice Davidson

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

May Sarton

The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Expectation works in mysterious ways—and totally unconsciously.

Michael Crichton

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Leonardo da Vinci

Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Lord Byron

The word advent means “expectation.” What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

Louie Giglio

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.

Wallace D. Wattles

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

Michel de Montaigne

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

George Bernard Shaw

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

William Congreve

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.

Wayne Dyer

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

Lynda Barry

Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.

Wallace D. Wattles

He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.

Hilary Duff

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