If You Expect Nothing Quotes

#1. If you expect nothing but success, then you will be a success.

Debasish Mridha

#2. If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

Tonya Hurley

#3. If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

Sylvia Plath

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

Malcolm Forbes

#7. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

Sylvia Plath

#8. If you expect nothing, you aren't disappointed when you get nothing

J.M. Darhower

#9. The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

Jackson Katz

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

Alan Cohen

#11. The monster always approaches from the direction you least expect.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#12. You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

Wendell Berry

#13. Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

Peter Drucker

#14. When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

Steve Breen

#15. If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere

Timothy Keller

#16. Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#17. I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

Lady Gaga

#18. Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look with confidence to the future naturalists, who will be able to view both sides with impartiality.

Charles Darwin

#19. We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. The things that trip a person into love aren't the grand, sweeping traits you expect (must adore Waugh, display altruism, respect my space). The truly endearing properties are the small and apparently trivial gestures and habits that differentiate us one from another.

S.A. Jones

#21. Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.

Karl Ferdinand Braun

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

Lynda Barry

#23. People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

Matthew Quick

#24. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

#25. We can't predict what type of sustaining graces God will provide for us. And we can't expect that the kind of sustaining grace someone else receives will be the same kind of care we will receive. We can only trust that the provision will come.

Louie Giglio

#26. The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us ...

Miriam Makeba

#27. 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

#28. If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

David Attenborough

#29. You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.

Leonard Mlodinow

#30. The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk.

Stephen King

#31. '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

#32. If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

Dogen

#33. 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

#34. Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment.

John C. Maxwell

#35. When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

Kangana Ranaut

#36. If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

J. J. Watt

#37. If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.

Robert Kiyosaki

#38. And, anyway, friendship is different in another language; a foreign friend doesn't have to understand what you feel, and I don't expect it. It's enough if he understands what you just said.

Michael Chabon

#39. 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

#40. If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!

Ernie J Zelinski

#41. Have some whiskey,there's nothing like it for clearing the head. You must expect to be thick-witted if you insist upon drinking beer.

W. Somerset Maugham

#42. 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

#43. My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else.

Marilyn Manson

#44. 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

#45. As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

Bill Courtney

#46. So don't expect me to care when you find yourself nothing more than a puppet. If you aren't one already." He

Sarah J. Maas

#47. Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

Anne Hathaway

#48. in your deeds and in your works, don't expect to start reaping just as you start sowing.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#49. Let mortal man keep to his own
Mortality, and not expect too much.

Euripides

#50. Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?

Karen Marie Moning

#51. There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

Christopher Morley

#52. The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?"

William Arthur Ward

#53. We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#54. You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#55. I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it and experience it on their own.

Mark Goddard

#56. In a group of intelligent men expect only one to be wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#57. It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Francis Bacon

#58. The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

Tony Abbott

#59. The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"

Peter Drucker

#60. I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

Angie Stone

#61. If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.

Christopher Hitchens

#62. The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class:

Anthony Bourdain

#63. Antony said to Poemen, 'Our great work is to lay the blame for our sins upon ourselves before God, and to expect to be tempted to our last breath.

Benedicta Ward

#64. 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

#65. If you don't expect much you can't be disappointed.

Deborah Roberts

#66. Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

Barry Sanders

#67. It's nice to be short, because people expect less from you.

Amy Poehler

#68. My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

Charles Dickens

#69. People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

Claudia Rankine

#70. The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.

F. Ross Johnson

#71. Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception.

Osama Bin Laden

#72. You get better at sex when you know your own body. How are you going to expect a man to know your body when you don't know what pleases you?

Eva Longoria

#73. What a magical place," she whispered in an awed voice. "I expect a unicorn or fairies to appear."
"What would the fairies be doing?" Shermont asked. "Waltzing with the butterflies," she answered before thinking.

Laurie Brown

#74. Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
[Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

Horace

#75. I would expect another Scars album before another System album.

Daron Malakian

#76. Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

William Goldman

#77. I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.

Robert A. Heinlein

#78. While one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.

Susan B. Anthony

#79. My leg hurts," the soldier whined.
"Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?

John Flanagan

#80. You can't put your fist through a man's wood and expect him to forgive and forget.

Kevin Hearne

#81. Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

Anna Julia Cooper

#82. Be deliberate in your choices. We are created to do what we are called to do and what we are born to experience, not what we believe other people expect us to do. Your time is precious.

Julie Connor

#83. When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Ron Paul

#84. When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.

M. Russell Ballard