Quotes About Having No Expectations

#1. Having no expectations for some people in your life can be depressing, if not devastating. But with others, it's what is necessary. The hard part is not just figuring out which one applies, but accepting it.

Sarah Dessen

#2. In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.

Brie Larson

#3. Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled, just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is, to become every path, at any given moment.

Grigoris Deoudis

#4. Having five cats around the house helps me have no expectations. They are not goal-fulfilling creatures in any human sense. There is little one can expect of a cat.

Clarice Bryan

#5. Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.

Laozi

#6. Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.

Ken Blanchard

#7. It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

Michael Medved

#8. I cannot imagine a sentence more severe than a person limited not by his or her own abilities but by the opinions and expectations of others. And having been made to organize in such a way, comes the remuneration, but no penance or escape.

Noorilhuda

#9. Bridget decided she should at least enjoy some of the advantages of having a pretend boyfriend, especially the 3 Fs. Flowers. Fine Dining. Fine-looking man. And threw in an N: No expectations.

J. Lynn

#10. Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

Matthew Pearl

#11. No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

Lysa TerKeurst

#12. We enjoy the expectations people have of us. The higher they are, the more pressure, the better we like it.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#13. When expectations exceed reality, frustration is the result.

Jeffrey A. White

#14. Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.

Lionel Suggs

#15. Other people may not have had high expectations for me ... but I had high expectations for myself.

Shannon Miller

#16. He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs

Alice Hoffman

#17. It's scary when it's real. When it's not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.

Jenny Han

#18. That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

Mae Jemison

#20. Expectations are dangerous things. They've probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name.

Seanan McGuire