Quotes About Expecting Nothing

#1. I wasn't sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I'd braced myself for disgust or anger. But she just
looked at me like I was - nothing. An annoyance, maybe.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

Simon Sinek

#3. Give, expecting nothing there of.

Thomas Aquinas

#4. I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

Julia Quinn

#5. If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.

Mark W. Boyer

#6. I'd kind of already been expecting the worst, to be in this alone. Now I knew. Twice he'd disappointed me; this couldn't be a surprise. Nothing had changed, not really.

Kylie Scott

#7. She knew for a fact that she wasn't going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn't going to watch the storm in front of her and pretend like nothing had happened. Yes, Allah is expecting her to be patient and keep on marching forward

Diyar Harraz

#8. Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

Wayne Dyer

#9. This was sublime loving, truly loving, and expecting nothing but the freedom to express it.

S.A. Reid

#10. When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.

Paulo Coelho

#11. Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

Melody Beattie

#12. Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don't get in their way without expecting to be hurt.

Patricia Briggs

#13. Happy birthday, Bright Side. I hope you're in charge of showtime tonight. I'm expecting nothing short of fucking incredible on behalf of your big day, just so you know. No pressure, but you'd better step up and do epic.

Kim Holden

#14. By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

Eric Maisel

#15. I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

Francine Rivers

#16. Both men had talked of their intentions to commit suicide. Both used the typical argument - they had nothing more to expect from life. In both cases it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something

Viktor E. Frankl

#17. And no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something inreturn. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.

Kate Atkinson

#18. 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

#19. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything

Katharine Hepburn

#20. For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation ... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#21. I reach forward for him, expecting to feel the hardness of his chest or at the very least one of his arms coming to halt my progress, but there is nothing. I expand my reach a little and then, feeling slightly spooked, I listen ... Nothing. No breathing, no footsteps; nothing.

Felicity Brandon

#22. 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

#23. Giving in the spirit of love, expecting nothing in return is how God gives and so should we, as we are a piece of our creator.

Alice Hocker

#24. His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

Margaret Weis

#25. I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

Bret Easton Ellis

#26. Fame is temporary, make it longterm by putting smiles on people's hearts and helping others by expecting nothing in return. Be famous and unforgettable for your Unconditional Love

Arsi Nami

#27. I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

Cliff Robertson

#28. I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ...

Mary Russell Mitford

#29. Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#30. Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

Mary Oliver

#31. Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Lewis Carroll

#32. To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

Diane Setterfield

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

Shunryu Suzuki

#34. There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

Thom Yorke

#35. There is no way at all that Diana was mentally unstable. There is nothing wrong with expecting your husband to be faithful and being angry when he isn't. Diana had every reason to believe that Charles and Camilla never stopped seeing each other.

Hasnat Khan

#36. Are you scared?"
"Of what?"
"Dying." Jemma was nothing, if she was not blunt.
"I'm not expecting to die, Jemma. I'm expecting to have treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, whatever it takes, but I'm expecting to come through this.

Calvin Wade

#37. Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Arnold H. Glasow

#38. If you choose to give and give of your own free will, give with a good heart, expecting absolutely nothing in return and holding no strings over those you give to.

Mary Solomon

#39. The danger of expecting nothing is that, in the end, it might be all we'll get.

Dan Ariely

#40. Love the people that wanna see you be successful and help you expecting nothing in return. That's priceless. Those are real friends.

Mark Patterson

#41. 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

#42. Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

Kurt Vonnegut

#43. I've learned that to love means giving everything, body and soul, and expecting nothing in return. The beautiful thing is that if you're loved in return, it will all come back to you ten-fold.

Kim Holden