Do Not Expect Quotes

#1. We are in the school [or mortality] and keep learning and we do not expect to cease learning while we live on earth; and when we pass through the veil, we expect still to continue to learn and increase our fund of information.

David A. Bednar

#2. Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

Oswald Chambers

#3. I do not pray ... I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men ... Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.

Zora Neale Hurston

#4. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.

Paulo Coelho

#5. Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.

Mo Ibrahim

#6. In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.

David Bergen

#7. Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.

David Gemmell

#8. Do not expect God to do for you the things you can, and should do for yourself.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. God opens doors for you, but do not expect Him to walk through them for you. He delivered the Israelites from Egypt, but they were still required to walk to the Promised Land. They did not need to pray for a miracle, the miracle was in their feet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart,
but do not expect to reach the promised land
without going through some wilderness together.

Charlie W Shedd

#11. Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

Sun Tzu

#12. We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#13. And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

Madeleine L'Engle

#14. Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

Mason Cooley

#15. My storm is my own...Enter if you dare. However, bear in mind that the tempest of desire is fraught with unpredictability from the highest peaks to the depths of the abyss. Do not expect a smooth ride, but expect a true and passionate one...

Virginia Alison

#16. When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself.

Choa Kok Sui

#17. I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

H.P. Lovecraft

#18. Do not expect peace with the enemy whose worth you do not recognize.

Sorin Cerin

#19. The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

Quentin Crisp

#20. Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

Mason Cooley

#21. They do not expect the north to believe their lies, not truly, but they think we must pretend to believe or die.

George R R Martin

#22. And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.

Philip Caputo

#23. Do not expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go badly, you will blame yourself.

Barbara Kingsolver

#24. I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the world is there such a glorious combination of rocky coast, sand dunes, pine woods and cypress trees.

Alister MacKenzie

#25. What good you do to men, expect God to return to you, do not expect from men.

Sunday Adelaja

#26. do not expect high CTRs on Facebook. Unlike Google, where the average CTR is 1%, on Facebook you can expect CTRs of 0.1%, as on Facebook ads are displayed and not searched for.

Gabriela Taylor

#27. Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Marcus Aurelius

#28. To free yourself from the emotional rollercoaster, have an expectation that events will be as they are going to be. Learn to accept things the way they are and do not expect events to be how you want them to be.

Allan Willis

#29. Peace we achieve When we do not expect anything From the world, But only give, give, and give Unconditionally What we have and what we are.

Sri Chinmoy

#30. I do not expect to see home again, though that is what I want.

Edward Snowden

#31. If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one might conclude that this is part of God's sovereign justice. His grace, however, is that He Himself will always be there for you, no matter what.

Criss Jami

#32. Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.

Joel Beeke

#33. People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

H.L. Mencken

#34. In a respectful relationship, each person understands, "I am responsible to know what is going on inside me and communicate it to you. I do not expect you to know it, nor will I allow you to assume that you know it. And I will not make assumptions about what is going on inside you.

Danny Silk

#35. We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and we do not live in chronic dread of disaster. We do not expect disaster until we have specific reason to expect it - and

Ayn Rand

#36. But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.

R. YS Perez

#37. The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation.

Sun Tzu

#38. Arobynn only smiled at her, taller by a head. And when he reached out, she allowed him to brush his knuckles down her cheek. The calluses on is fingers said enough about how often he practiced. I do not expect you to trust me; I do not expect you to love me.

Sarah J. Maas

#39. I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

C.S. Lewis

#40. Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

Gautama Buddha

#41. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

Alan Lightman

#42. Do not expect much from humans.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. Seek the path, do not seek attainment, seek for the path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see it, nor to read it in books. Look for the truth within yourself, not without yourself.

P.D. Ouspensky

#44. In that case, do not expect to be rescued by the Red Army, Gorbachev said.

Ken Follett

#45. Do not expect anything from any one. Always look to God

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. I do not expect I shall ever again have the opportunity of defending and murdering a client in the same day. - Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

Seth Grahame-Smith

#47. I do not expect or even try to convince anyone else to be religious or practice any spirituality. Your faith, your choice. Just walk in love and try not to be a hateful shrew and you'd be doing life right.

Luvvie Ajayi

#48. Do not expect much from humans. Expect much more from God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#49. It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#50. Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.

Aisha Mirza

#51. Note to self: Do not expect coherent thought to be possible when staring at Nash. Motor skills may be impaired as well. Take necessary precautions.

M. Leighton

#52. People who succeed do not expect every company to reward fairly; they screen for companies that will recognize their contribution," wrote Warren Farrell, Ph.D. in The Myth of Male Power.2

Suzanne Venker

#53. Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

Noam Chomsky

#54. Do not expect, my friend, that the whole world will rejoice if you become Christian. You will probably receive enmity and hatred and persecution from certain people. It happened in the case of our Lord, and His followers must always be ready to meet it.

Martyn

#55. As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

Adam Clarke

#56. I do not expect to see home again.

Edward Snowden

#57. If you need to pursue your interests, do not expect anyone else to do it for you.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#58. Do not expect anything from any one.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#59. I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Huey Newton

#60. Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime requirements justify the expense.

Sanjay Kumar

#61. Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.

Ayn Rand

#62. Do not expect your life to "return to normal." That's not what you had in mind when you embarked on this odyssey.

Rasha

#63. Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

Charles William Eliot

#64. Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.

Alan Cohen

#65. Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.

William Jewett Tucker

#66. Do not expect a harvest if you haven't sown anything! God loves people who are hardworking, who are always doing something. He helps doers

Sunday Adelaja

#67. Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#68. When two people have been married for years they seem to become unconscious of each other's bodily presence so that they move as if alone, speak aloud things which they do not expect to be answered, and in general seem to experience all the comfort of solitude without its loneliness.

Virginia Woolf

#69. No Body Want your love
People are here for fun,Money,Sex, Flirting Enjoyment interesting game.
So Do not Expect Much and Do not Hurt.

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#70. Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

Joe Slovo

#71. Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

Swami Vivekananda

#72. Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

Confucius

#73. Do not expect something for nothing. Be willing to give an equivalent value for all that you desire, and include in your plans a definite provision for doing so.

Napoleon Hill

#74. Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.

Rod Dreher

#75. The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. He arrives when we do not expect him: not because the calculation suggested by the apostle was mistaken, but because we have not learned the art.

Umberto Eco

#76. Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

Robert Henri

#77. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Abraham Lincoln

#78. If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.

Heraclitus

#79. Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Miguel Ruiz

#80. Do not expect me to fall in with the evil customs and ways of the world. I am in Rome, but I will not do as Rome does. I am an alien, a stranger, and a foreigner. My citizenship is in heaven.

Billy Graham

#81. We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect, the United States to come to New Zealand's assistance with nuclear weapons or to present American nuclear capability as a deterrent to an attacker.

David Lange

#82. If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Charles Spurgeon

#83. Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

Bill Vaughan

#84. Do not expect a lot from people when You Yourself can not give much.

Abigal Muchecheti

#85. Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.

Timothy Ferriss

#86. Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.

Susan Patron

#87. Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

Alexander The Great

#88. I do not expect Henrique Mauricio to conform to my standards of behavior," Alaric said. "I expect him not to do things that make me want to pound his face into a bloody pulp. Sadly, every time I meet him he fails to live up to this expectation.

Meg Cabot

#89. Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

Walter Savage Landor

#90. I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.

Emily Giffin

#91. If people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly.

Carne Ross

#92. Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

Wilbur Smith

#93. Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

Napoleon Hill

#94. Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.

J.I. Packer

#95. 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 only.

William Blake

#96. Do not expect human beings to reward you, don't even think about it, just LOVE, because you know at the end of the day it will be God who will give you the reward.

Bo Sanchez

#97. Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of this error our churches are full of substandard Christians.

A.W. Tozer

#98. I own the responsibility for determining my own value. I do not expect anyone else to make me feel valued and important. That must come from inside me. Once I know my value is set and absolute, I can accept love and validation from others, and believe it.

Kimberly Giles

#99. Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.

Rodolfo Costa

#100. If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Heraclitus