Top 100 Expect Nothing Quotes
#1. If you expect nothing, you aren't disappointed when you get nothing
J.M. Darhower
#3. To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
James Hillman
#4. Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.
Frank Leslie
#5. Once you figure out what you want in life - expect nothing less.
Lorii Myers
#6. If you expect nothing but success, then you will be a success.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
Francois Fenelon
#8. Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!
Benjamin Franklin
#9. Expect nothing and appreciate the value of everything; this is the true lesson of the Rule of Acceptance.
Michael Tlanusta Garrett
#10. Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.
Lawrence Fagg
#12. Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
#13. To not hope, to expect nothing, to dismiss at every turn - these had been her only protection against certain devastation. Disappointment could not ensue when one failed to gain what one had never wished for.
Galen Beckett
#14. Words mean nothing
Actions are everything
Expect nothing
Appreciate everything
Patrick Cruz
#17. Piggy took off his shoes and socks, ranged them carefully on the ledge and tested the water with one toe. 'It's hot!' 'What did you expect?' 'I didn't expect nothing. My auntie-' 'Sucks to your auntie!
William Golding
#19. If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.
Tonya Hurley
#20. She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.
Donna Lynn Hope
#21. Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.
Hugh Jackman
#22. You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
Halsey
#23. The wheel of fortune lifts us up and brings us down. You must free your happiness from its vagaries. Expect nothing, and everything is a gift.
Phil Tucker
#24. Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything ...
Harry Houdini
#25. But children die how they have been living-with hope. They don't what is happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand-but you end up needing them to hold yours.
Tea Obreht
#26. Another ten points from Gryffindor," said Snape. "I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.
J.K. Rowling
#27. A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return
Anonymous
#28. Expect nothing of Walder Frey, and you will never be surprised.
George R R Martin
#30. I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.
Henry Rollins
#31. Expect nothing, and you will enjoy everything!
Ethan Hawke
#32. I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
Muhammad Ali
#33. Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Ayn Rand
#34. Happy are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed."5
Edward H. Burtt Jr.
#35. Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect.
Colin Powell
#36. The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
Alexandra David-Neel
#37. I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.
Howard Norman
#38. But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I'll find a way to kill you this time."
His eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he'd accepted a challenge I didn't even know I'd laid down. "I'd expect nothing less."
Demons; only they can get a cheap thrill from a death threat.
Pippa DaCosta
#39. Happy are those who expect nothing; they won't be disappointed
Abel
#40. If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#41. When the only answer a little girl ever receives is no, from her parents or her teachers or her world, at some point she stops asking for what she wants. She begins to expect nothing, so as not to be disappointed when that exactly what she gets. But, it turns out, I do have wants.
Laura Fitzgerald
#42. I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
Henry Miller
#43. It is only practice that improves our minds as well as bodies, and we must expect nothing from our understandings any farther than they are perfected by habits.
John Locke
#44. To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Ivan Turgenev
#46. Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.
Susan Sontag
#47. 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
#48. Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
Laurence Overmire
#49. God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.
Bill Johnson
#50. How does Reyes feel about him?"
"He would rip out his spine if I let him."
She patted my knee. "I would expect nothing less from the son of evil incarnate. He's a good guy.
Darynda Jones
#51. If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
Sylvia Plath
#52. Expect nothing from People with cheap thoughts. Because, You will end up screwed!
Mohith Agadi
#53. Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.
Eric Maisel
#54. She liked soot, and heat, and grime, and she was beginning to realize, if she didn't actually like her aloneness, she was at least comforted by it. She should be grateful; she knew, she knew. She should be thrilled just to be alive. So why was it she preferred to expect nothing?
Alice Hoffman
#55. Expect nothing and you don't need the courage to hope, nor the strength to withstand disappointment when nothing comes.
Glen Duncan
#56. Your pants are filthy, as if you rolled in the dirt before coming here. I would expect nothing less from the boy I remember
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#58. When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.
Darren Criss
#59. God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.
Isaac Asimov
#60. So what are you afraid of?" She paused, considering how to answer. "Hope." His brow furrowed. "Hope scares you?" "I try not to hope for anything," she said. "If you expect nothing, you aren't disappointed when you get nothing." "That's
J.M. Darhower
#61. It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. Giving in its purest form is done with a heart that says I wish it were more, and I expect nothing in return.
Mary Hunt
#63. Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.
Jonathan Rauch
#64. When you give, expect nothing from people and everything from Allah.
Omar Suleiman
#65. Expect nothing in life and prepare for the worst so all the good things in life are blessings
Myself
#66. Expect nothing, and by Christ, you're entitled to even less.
Ken Bruen
#67. Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Funny how it works out though that when you expect nothing from a person, they might just give you everything you didn't know you wanted.
Jamie Kain
#70. When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#71. You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
Aimee Bender
#72. Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.
James Patterson
#73. The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.
Christopher Pike
#74. My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Anthony Hopkins
#75. Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything.
Tony Gaskins
#76. Instead of filling with expectations, the joy-filled expect nothing
and are filled.
Ann Voskamp
#77. That a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, and that such a person need expect nothing from the Great Law. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally,
Emmet Fox
#78. If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Malcolm Forbes
#79. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
Sylvia Plath
#80. Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
Alan Paton
#81. As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#82. expect nothing, be pleasantly surprised.
Cindy Pon
#83. If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
Dogen
#84. To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Dominique Francon
Ayn Rand
#85. 'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.
Michelle Dockery
#86. Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.
Ellen G. White
#87. When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.
Michael J. Sullivan
#88. Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse.
Thomas Ligotti
#89. Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour
Sri Chinmoy
#90. I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
H.P. Lovecraft
#92. Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised
Daniel Defoe
#93. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.
L.M. Montgomery
#95. Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. That's your first lesson.
Susan Cooper
#96. No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.
Anthony Hopkins
#97. Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.
Nancy Werlin
#98. Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
Barry Sanders
#99. I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.
Sylvia Kristel
#100. When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
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