Top 100 Quotes About No Expectations
#1. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony De Mello
#2. Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we [filmmakers] made.
Tom Hanks
#3. 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
#4. No expectations, by the way. I'm not inviting you to, like, a three- day fuck fest or anything.
Elle Kennedy
#5. When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)
Tony Robbins
#6. I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
Tommy Shaw
#7. 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
#8. Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self ... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"
Misty Upham
#9. The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.
Gina McKee
#10. Put no expectations on others, only on yourself. If you put no expectations on others they can not disappoint you.
Samantha Price
#11. Let's have each other then. My body and your body. No expectations. No questions.
Pepper Winters
#12. I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
Christopher Meloni
#13. No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.
Donella Meadows
#14. True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
Suze Orman
#15. If you don't know, then it's all right. There need not be any expectations. If there are no expectations, then you are free. If you expect, then you are in bondage. Choose whatever you want. Expectations are never fulfilled.
H.W.L. Poonja
#16. No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.
Jude Morgan
#17. Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!
Caroline Myss
#18. The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
Charles Krauthammer
#19. When you have no expectations, they're easy to fulfill.
Marty Rubin
#20. Sport that consumed me for over two decades ... is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive.
Clara Hughes
#21. It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
Ann Brashares
#22. I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.
Al Gore
#23. I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.
Jason E. Hodges
#24. I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.
Anthony Hopkins
#25. Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow,
Caroline Myss
#26. Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
Bob Dylan
#27. I don't stay in one discipline because it's more lucrative than another. In fact, the most successful thing I ever did was 'Just Kids,' for which I had absolutely no expectations.
Patti Smith
#29. 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
#30. I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.
Ragnar Kjartansson
#31. Real love doesn't die. It's the physical body that dies. Genuine, authentic love has no expectations whatsoever; it doesn't even need the physical presence of a person ... Even when he is dead and buried that part of you that loves the person will always live.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#32. I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.
Robin Thicke
#35. 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
#36. She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.
Elizabeth George
#37. Love is giving with no expectations ... Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
Bernie Siegel
#38. I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I am. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third - I started to realize, 'Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.'
Crystal Bowersox
#39. Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#40. Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
Cory Booker
#41. Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
Stephen Sondheim
#42. Let Integrity. Suit Yourself.
No Thoughts. No Expectations.(Su Shih)
Sung Yee Poon
#43. No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.
Arlo Guthrie
#44. I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#45. 'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.
The Weeknd
#46. I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
Jane Austen
#47. Have you ever been by yourself with no distractions? No radio, no TV, no internet, no mobile. Have you every been yourself in complete and utter silence? With no expectations and nothing else to do?
Silence heals.
Ana Ortega
#49. The morning with the whole day waiting,
full of promise,
the night
of quiet, of no expectations, of rest.
And the certainty of home, the one I live in,
and the one
that lives in me.
Karen Hesse
#51. It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.
Jade Edmistone
#52. I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.
Jennifer Armentrout
#53. In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.
Brie Larson
#54. E began drinking heavily and lived in a way which a friend described as making sense "only if he had no expectations of being alive much beyond Thursday".
P.D. James
#55. Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
Anthony Hopkins
#56. There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.
Kevin Smith
#57. I had no expectations,' Philippa said. The tears stood still on her face. 'This is one lesson I know by heart already.
Dorothy Dunnett
#58. I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.
Behati Prinsloo
#59. The anarch nurtures no expectations. He stakes on no one but himself. Basically, people remain pied pipers, whatever melodies they play to introduce themselves. And as for the rats - that is a chapter unto itself.
Ernst Junger
#60. Each moment brings new surprises to the one who has no expectations, who comes with an absolutely open mind. Then incredible things start happening. Even if you had wanted them you could not have expected them; you could not have found yourself worthy enough to expect them.
Rajneesh
#61. 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
#62. It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
Bill Paxton
#63. Amazing." Hi stripped off his shirt, wrung it out. "Score one for your honker." "Thanks, I think." I cocked my chin at Hi's substantial midsection. "Nice abs." "Yeah, I work out twice a month. No expectations. But stop hitting on me, it's embarrassing.
Kathy Reichs
#64. 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
#65. I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.
Bill Kreutzmann
#66. During those days of whirling about the globe, I had an epiphany: travel was the only area of my life where I had no expectations. I anticipated nothing while fully engaging each moment. What bred adventure, surprise and deep experience was not knowing, surrendering to now and letting go of control.
Gina Greenlee
#67. No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.
Anthony Hopkins
#68. Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.
James E. Faust
#69. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner ...
Teju Cole
#70. Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.
Des Browne
#71. The grass is often no greener on the other side, so stick it out and see if you can grow up within the relationship. Find happiness and emotional independence within yourself before placing unreasonable and often unexpressed expectations on your spouse.
Malti Bhojwani
#72. People were the same everywhere, no matter what lofty vows they proclaimed. Help was given only in the hope of its being reciprocated. Expectations of reward lurked behind every act of altruism.
Steven Erikson
#73. There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way.
Siri Hustvedt
#74. The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one's new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one's existence. The only one.
Denis Fitzpatrick
#75. Alice interrupted. No tears, no secrets. I want the life I'm meant to have, Etta. It's as simple as that. My father always says that the way to truly live is to do so without expectations or fear hanging over you, affecting your choices ...
Alexandra Bracken
#76. 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
#77. Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.
Sarah Chalke
#78. It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.
Marianne Williamson
#79. Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain
You never know when it will end, don't let a moment pass in vain ...
In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,
I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained ...
Mehek Bassi
#80. To Stanley Ager, the gift of human "service" was no one-way loyalty. He clearly gave his all to the families he served but, though he was almost too polite to state this, his expectation of loyalty in return was implicit.
Stanley Ager
#82. I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
Edith Evans
#83. Isaac didn't understand heartache. Or regret or longing or divided loyalties. Or anger or shattered trust or betrayal. Such things had no clarity. They involved expectations of another's behavior, and Isaac had no such expectations.
Mary Doria Russell
#84. Love doesn't fail us, it's our expectations that fail us. Lovers sometimes forget that the gift is the call to love itself, and not the result. The quickening, the deepening, the merging, the burning bright in love's cosmic kiln. That's the great gift, no matter where it leads.
Jeff Brown
#85. There was no Twitter when I was in high school, so I can't even imagine the pressures or the expectations of pursuing likes or living life in that kind of mentality.
Tyler Oakley
#86. So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-"
"No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.
J.K. Rowling
#87. No buts, no excuses. Live life to your expectations, not anyone else's.
Komal Kant
#88. If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.
Alistair Begg
#89. Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.
Candace Bushnell
#90. I wish if I could fulfill the expectations of others. Life is unpredictable and there is no more humanity
Avinash Advani
#91. And indeed if you think you're a genius at something what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
Diana Wynne Jones
#92. No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
#93. Remove the expectations from others and no one can hurt your feelings anymore
Anuj Singhal
#94. The statement "Hitler loved dogs and little children" is shocking no matter how many times you hear it, because any trace of kindness in someone so evil violates the expectations set up by the halo effect.
Daniel Kahneman
#95. Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do.
We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.
Seth Godin
#96. Life has no limits. We are limited by our expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#97. There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
Stephen Covey
#98. A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pitty in all the glittering multitude.
Charles Dickens
#99. I had no expectation about getting a nomination, but I was watching nonetheless. My wife and my son got really excited. I was sort of surprised - I was like, 'Oh, wow.' And I couldn't hear the latter part of my name.
Tobey Maguire
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