Not Expecting Anything Quotes

#1. I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.

Carmelo Anthony

#2. The thing that I look for in a script - I'm not looking for anything next because you never know where life's going to take you, so you can't just expect, 'I want to do this next.' So I'm not expecting anything; I'm just hoping.

Julia Garner

#3. Will you please get that look off your face? You're gonna make me cry. Don't worry, I know you're in love with somebody else. I'm not expecting anything from you.

Haruki Murakami

#4. A godlike person is always giving and forgiving but not expecting anything.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Kindness,giving your all,and not expecting anything in return

Mark

#6. Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that.

Richard Madden

#7. People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference.

Simon Baker

#8. Never put anything past anyone. Stop expecting people to be as genuine as you are, it's never the case & it will almost always be a let down.

Behdad Sami

#9. Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

Dainin Katagiri

#10. Is there anything fairer than morning?" she murmured, not expecting an answer.
He was quiet for a moment. "I can think of three things.

Rosslyn Elliott

#11. The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

Douglas Adams

#12. Being of service does not mean we are less than or subservient to anyone or anything. It's a way of being that invites grace and abundance in our daily lives. Being of service means giving to others without expecting anything back.

Zeina Smidi

#13. Tanith: Serpine is used to the Elders taking forever to make their calm, thought-out decisions. So he won't be expecting anything as amazingly rash and reckless as this
Ghastly: That'll teach him to underestimate stupid people.

Derek Landy

#14. It wasn't like I was expecting Senior year to be some amazing experience. If anything, I was prepared for it to be pretty much a letdown. Everyone would be looking ahead to college and getting sick of seeing the same faces we've been looking at for the last three years.

Jenny O'Connell

#15. When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.

Jon Mead

#16. But then he'd lived long enough to understand the futility of expecting anything at all

Laura Barnett

#17. Some say that "there is no such thing as free lunch". And, I ask, why not?
The joy of giving without expecting anything in return from a particular source is simply magic.

Ana Ortega

#18. I didn't say anything. But I could have pointed out that most life-changing says happen without your expecting them. I have spent what seems like half my life expecting the worst. And it never happens. But on the day it does, it will knock me flat on my back anyway.

Nick Hornby

#19. The important thing is that you show your appreciation without expecting anything in return, and that you get new work out of the appreciation.

Austin Kleon

#20. Before I saw you, I hadn't cared for anyone for ... well, for the good part of a century, and it felt like my heart had been permanently disconnected. I wasn't even looking anymore. And without expecting anything ... without any hope at all, suddenly you were here.

Amy Plum

#21. Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

James Frey

#22. Erik wondered if they saw the irony of such a tiny complex expecting to find the cure from the very lives they minimized in comparison to the whole. If such small, little lives mattered not, how could they believe anything they did would matter?

Ellie Lieberman

#23. It hasn't been easy to listen to the conversations at the table. Even without anyone expecting me to say anything. It hasn't been easy to sit there watching other people's lives go on. I

Colleen Faulkner

#24. My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

Joyce Meyer

#25. I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up ...

Elizabeth Goudge

#26. Of course it landed in my gut to a total panic response, because I wasn't expecting anyone, and didn't seem able to anticipate anything but more trouble. I try not to think that way, but it's more a feeling than a thought, and besides, it's an involuntary response.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#27. When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you.

Debasish Mridha

#28. When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.

John C. Maxwell

#29. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything.

Shunryu Suzuki

#30. This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.

C. JoyBell C.

#31. True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return ...

Deborah Barnes

#32. Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

Ben Parr

#33. To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

#34. That's what happens with most comedies. If you watch 10 minutes and there's no joke, then you're disappointed because you're expecting jokes. The same goes for emotional movies. You have to feel something. If you don't feel anything for 10 minutes, you get bored.

Quentin Dupieux

#35. If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

Orhan Pamuk

#36. To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

Tariq Ramadan

#37. Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.

Dillon Burroughs

#38. Inspire others without expecting anything in return. True joy is in giving.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

Chris Pine

#40. But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again.

Larry McMurtry

#41. But then he'd lived long enough to expect the futility of ever expecting anything at all

Laura Barnett

#42. Being an opener is easy because fans aren't expecting anything. However, when you go up there and blow their minds and they flip out that is such an unbelievable feeling, so you want to make sure you bring your everything, every single night to ensure that happens.

Andrew Ripp

#43. I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

Misha Collins

#44. Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#45. My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.

Iris Apfel

#46. When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

Shunryu Suzuki

#47. Where do we find happiness? We pursue it, search for it, kill ourselves trying to find it, and all the time it's just here ... It comes just when we've stopped expecting anything, stopped hoping, stopped being afraid.

Irene Nemirovsky

#48. I'm the first guy to drive long-distance on Mars. The first guy to spend more than thirty-one sols on Mars. The first guy to grow crops on Mars. First, first, first! I wasn't expecting to be first at anything.

Andy Weir

#49. All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.

John Irving

#50. The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything ... doing unselfishly.

Brian L. Weiss

#51. But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

Scott Westerfeld

#52. This was exactly why they'd failed: never being satisfied with what a person had to give, always expecting so much sacrifice that you had to hate yourself for anything less.

Sonya Huber

#53. It's perfectly possible to live without expecting anything of life; in fact, it's the most common way.

Michel Houellebecq

#54. Was I wrong when I humbled myself and honored you by preaching God's Good News to you without expecting anything in return? - 2 Corinthians 11:7

Gary Chapman

#55. Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.

Jerry Lewis

#56. My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.

Berenice Bejo

#57. Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.

A.R. Rahman

#58. we can learn a lot from a tree; she
gives so much without expecting
anything in return. oxygen, shade,
fruit, resources. she is proud of her
roots and tough to tear down.
try to be more like a tree.

give without expectations, be
proud, be strong.

JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon

#59. Too many people are expecting me to do things. I don't want to meet anyone's expectations. Be expected. I just want to-be. No explanations necessary. Me. Quiet. Anything more is too risky.

Amy McNamara

#60. So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment. Moment after moment you feel your last instant. In each inhalation and each exhalation there are countless instants of time. Your intention is to live in each instant.

Shunryu Suzuki

#61. Love is doing a kindness for someone else, not expecting to receive anything in return.

Sylvain Reynard

#62. During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big part of who I am. Hopefully it translates well and I keep growing as an artist.

Jessica Sanchez

#63. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked (Luke 6:35).

Michele Woolley

#64. Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.

Alexandra Adornetto

#65. 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

#66. Only crazy people don't do anything new and they expecting new result.

Sunday Adelaja

#67. If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

Peter Maxwell Davies