
Top 60 If You Don't Expect Anything Quotes
#1. Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed.
Patricia McCormick
#2. Even if you don't expect anything from life, doesn't life expect something from you?
Viktor E. Frankl
#3. When you are sharing your joy, you don't create a prison for anybody. You simply give. You don't even expect gratitude or thankfulness, because you are giving not to get anything, not even gratitude. You
Osho
#4. Being in a relationship doesn't entitle you to anything. You don't get what you expect, you get what you create.
Steve Maraboli
#5. Do something nice for somebody. Do something nice for God. Do something nice for the earth - and don't expect anything in return or you will suffer.
Frederick Lenz
#6. Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?
Don McCullin
#7. I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films; I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.
Julia Garner
#8. Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.
Ryan Sheckler
#9. No, but I have passed the point in life where I expect to be satisfied," Augustus said. "At least I don't expect to be satisfied with much. When it comes right down to it, Woodrow, I guess my own cooking beats anything I've come across in this life.
Larry McMurtry
#10. When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.
Nancy Werlin
#11. I do not agree with Thomas Wolfe ... about anything. You can go home again as long as you don't expect home to be what it was when you left it. Or you don't expect yourself to be what you were when you left home.
Raymond Burr
#12. Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.
Tyler Perry
#13. As for all your latest Mayan discoveries and poems, I want to hear every word of it if you want to transmit it, or tell it when we meet, but don't expect me to get excited by anything anymore.
Jack Kerouac
#14. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act
Paulo Coelho
#15. Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector ... they expect results!
Dan Aykroyd
#16. Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.
Yolanda Adams
#17. Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.
Paul Auster
#18. If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.
Moby
#19. I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don't expect anything from anyone. Expectations always hurt. Life is short, so love your life, be happy and keep smiling.
Anonymous
#20. Give up as much as you're willing to receive back and give yourself, if that makes any sense. Whatever that is, don't expect more from a person than what you're willing to give, but give it knowing that you're giving it - it's been given, so don't expect anything else.
Emayatzy Corinealdi
#21. I don't expect anyone to give me anything.
Jamie Moyer
#22. If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.
Carol S. Dweck
#23. Love is unconditional when you don't expect anything from the beloved.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live.
Adrian Tan
#25. It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.
Theodore Roosevelt
#26. I generally don't become overexcited about things anyway, I'm just not one of those people. I'm not easily surprised by things either. I think it's because I expect that anything can happen
Cecelia Ahern
#27. Don't expect anything from anyone unless you are prepared to accept denial.
Mohith Agadi
#28. Living with reality is a very good trick. It gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of molecules of your soul by living through reality because you don't expect anything anymore, which is a weird paradox.
Anthony Hopkins
#29. You can't expect the audience to feel anything if you don't.
William Boughton
#30. From now on, I promise I wil consult with you before I do anything you don't expect. Is that acceptable? Only if it involves weapons, magic, kings, or family members, she said. Or flowers. Or flowers, she agreed.
Christopher Paolini
#31. I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you.
Shel Silverstein
#32. Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it ...
Damon Dash
#33. When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#34. Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen ...
Deborah Meaden
#35. I'm a fan of movies and television shows, and I don't expect anything from actors and actresses, or anyone, but good work. What they do. I don't feel like I deserve a piece of their personal life, or even what they think about the work they do.
Kristen Stewart
#36. I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#37. Wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright...resist the temptation to trifle with other people's feelings.
Elisabeth Elliot
#38. I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.
Olivia Newton-John
#39. It never pleases me to punish willful disobedience, Isabel. Having to punish you for that sort of thing means I've failed to communicate what it is I expect out of you. It means I'm failing you as a Dom if you don't understand what my wants and needs are, and I hate failing at anything.
Ella Dominguez
#40. He'd survived by following two very important rules: don't feel anything and don't expect anything from anyone.
G.P. Ching
#41. I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old ... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
Om Puri
#42. Sometimes we win and sometimes we lose , don't expect anything to get back
Paulo Coelho
#43. My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.
Peter Hook
#44. I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.
Jasmine Guinness
#45. I never expect anything from anybody. I'm a bit Scottish like that - I don't like to be disappointed and let down. I like to take life very slowly.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#46. I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.
Lucas Neff
#47. Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you
Donna Ball
#48. When you make decisions, you deal with consequences. Don't expect anything in return.
Winna Efendi
#49. You can only see progress when you start doing something, so don't expect anything without your efforts.
Auliq Ice
#50. Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don't expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.
Helena Bonham Carter
#51. Don't expect anyone to do anything for you what you're not ready to do for yourself.
Russell Brooks
#52. The long road has drained me of all feelings and expectations. I don't feel a thing or expect anything now.
Mahmoud Darwish
#53. I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.
Elisabeth Elliot
#54. I don't know what to expect out of my films. My first two films were with extremely talented directors, and they didn't work. And my next two films were with newcomers, and they worked well. So I've stopped expecting anything from my movies.
Sonam Kapoor
#55. Regrettably, all the people I know in Florida don't know about anything outside their great country. Plus they expect everyone to understand what they're talking about
Alan Sugar
#56. When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.
Nancy Reagan
#57. I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
Yahya Jammeh
#58. Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. They don't expect anything from the French state, since they learned to stay hidden, often arriving without papers," he said. "Unemployment in France is of little concern, because essentially they're all entrepreneurs. It's a state of mind.
Anonymous
#60. I don't understand how a person won't do ANYTHING to help themselves but WILL get upset with someone else for not giving them the help the EXPECT or feel ENTITLED to. #VICTIM #TakeResponsibility #GrowUP #No1owesUshit #lifegoeson #LiveLearnLove #CheLeSmith
Michele Bardsley
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