When You Expect Quotes

#1. When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

#2. There is a tremendous power in positive thinking. When you expect the best, you literally create a thought field that magnetizes that which you desire. Like attracts like.

Douglas Bloch

#3. When you expect something, it is on the way. When you believe something, it is on the way. When you fear something, it is on the way. Your attitude or mood is always pointing toward what is coming, but you are never stuck with your current point of attraction.

Esther Hicks

#4. Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you expect it to take longer than you expect.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#5. Life is a ripoff when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it.

Werner Erhard

#6. When you expect happiness, you live happily. You also live happily when you choose to be happy. Expect less, choose more.

Robert J. Braathe

#7. When you expect a man to create your world of dreams, you fall into the doctrine against women and strengthen what we are supposed to fight back and demolish.

Namrata Kumari

#8. Miracles can only happen when you expect miracles with all of your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

Susan B. Anthony

#10. You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.

Jacque Fresco

#11. Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!

Red McCombs

#12. Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Wendell Berry

#13. When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

Mark Miller

#14. In life; when you expect good to happen, the bad happens and when you see the bad coming, then comes the good'
'Never be overconfident about your expectations

Peter Perry

#15. When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

J. P. Morgan

#16. When you expect something, when you aim at something, right there you dilute your energy; you split your energy, you split your attention and it becomes more than the place of yin and yang. You do not only divide, but you create the problem.

Taizan Maezumi

#17. When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.

Alfre Woodard

#18. Funny how it works out though that when you expect nothing from a person, they might just give you everything you didn't know you wanted.

Jamie Kain

#19. The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.

James Arthur Ray

#20. Confidence is always expecting a positive outcome. When you walk into a situation, be it personal or professional, when you expect things to go well, you are confident and more often than not, that confidence you exude is what attracts the positive result.

Malti Bhojwani

#21. When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.

Josh Homme

#22. It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

Alice Duer Miller

#23. When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.

Michael J. Sullivan

#24. She had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it. When you expect to be happy you are not, when you don't expect to be happy there's suddenly Easter in your soul, though it be midwinter.

Elizabeth Goudge

#25. When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

Thomas Merton

#26. When you expect something from your self and your own self disappoints you ... this is what i call a real disappointment . The worst disappointments comes from in-within.

Sameh Elsayed

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. You dont have to know a soul to know what I know
to expect what I'm expecting
to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day
When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse

Jack Kerouac

#30. The only thing predictable about you is that you consistently appear when you suppose I least expect it. Perhaps that will be your undoing; for now I shall expect to see you every time I turn around.

Colleen Gleason

#31. Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

Ewan McGregor

#32. Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#33. The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you.

S.A. Tawks

#34. Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.

Michelle Phan

#35. Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that how morals come, unbidden, in the course of events, when you least expect them?

J.M. Coetzee

#36. The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

Gene Spafford

#37. ... you look like a loved person. It always shows on people's faces. The ones who discover love when they are much older always look startled. The loved ones expect it from other people.

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

#38. That's the thing about love, my dear. It comes when you least expect it, when you least want it, and when you have sworn to yourself you're done with such foolish dealings, POOF! There is Mr. Wonderful standing right in front of you, stealing your heart away.

Kate Danley

#39. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

Maggie Kuhn

#40. You see, fear is a hunter. It encircles us when we are unarmed and least expect it. And then we are forced to make decisions.

Ruta Sepetys

#41. I'm living the dream! I just want to tell actors and writers it's never too late, and it can happen when you least expect it.

Geneva Carr

#42. I've found that if you expect the best of a person," Frank told him once, "you generally get it." "What happens when you don't?" Lucas asked. "Live and learn. Emphasis on learn.

Kristan Higgins

#43. I wouldn't expect you to know what the word honor means anyway. But when I make a pledge, I uphold it.

Amanda Carlson

#44. You will not always be happy but I guarantee it that you will always be lucky as an artist when you least expect it.

Abigail George

#45. 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

#46. As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.

Nicholas Hoult

#47. When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.

Flannery O'Connor

#48. You wasn't made like watch-dogs and house-cats and cows. You was made a fox, and you be a fox, and its queer-like to me, Foxy, as folk canna see that. They expect you to be what you wanna made to be. You'm made to be a fox; and when you'm busy being a fox they say you'm a sinner!

Mary Webb

#49. When you know nothing about a creature," the monk ground out, his voice as hard as a rock slide, "expect it has come to kill you.

Brian Staveley

#50. Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.

Dave Gahan

#51. When you learn to accept instead of expect, you'll have fewer disappointments. - Robert Fisher

Kristen Noel

#52. Oh my God, the luxuries we have in America. We just don't even realize because you live in it long enough and you come to expect it, but when you get to take a step outside of it you really, really get to recognize how blessed we are and how much we have.

Lindsey McKeon

#53. Life can catch you off guard. It smacks you in the face when you least expect it. There is nothing that you can do but accept what has been given to you and work with what you have.

Joann Buchanan

#54. It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

Stephen Moyer

#55. Live simply", she said. "Don't expect so much out of life. You can only be disappointed when your expectations are not met so strive for the best but keep your expectations simple." I

Donald Murray

#56. You can't draw a tattoo on the face and expect it to be hidden when you don't wear a veil.

S.A. David

#57. When you preach hatred, how do you expect your followers to respond?

Melissa Landers

#58. Time cannot destroy it. I am that love - time cannot touch me. Time but changes the form. Somewhere in some time it will return. When you least expect it, the face of a loved one reappears. Look beyond that face and you will see me.

Christopher Pike

#59. Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#60. When you start hanging out with Jennifer Lopez and Bill Clinton, you can't expect to remain an everyday person.

Alfonso Soriano

#61. Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Baz Luhrmann

#62. Lucy, you're a passionate, emotional person. Jude isn't so much different. What do you expect to be the result when you two come together? You two don't multiply the peaks and the valleys together; you exponentially affect them.

Nicole Williams

#63. When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour's cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.

Margot McCuaig

#64. But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

Lena Dunham

#65. I don't get why it would be interesting. I'm not that different. And also, now with Instagram and everything, everyone's so on their phones that even when I'm in a restaurant like this, where you wouldn't expect it, someone will come up and ask to get a picture with me and I'm like, 'No!'

Kate Moss

#66. the worst happens when you least expect it

Dean Koontz

#67. Is it a time for you, you I say, to dwell in your roofed-in houses?' (Haggai 1:4). The reply might have been that it was unreasonable to expect anyone to live in a roofless house, but the question made its point. What worth did they set on their God, when they left His Temple in ruins?

Joyce G. Baldwin

#68. The motivation sometimes comes when you least expect it. I try to keep an open mind.

DJ Quik

#69. Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

Niki De Saint Phalle

#70. You dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom
hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I almost expect them to pass through you as through air!

Thomas Hardy

#71. You can't have one without the other,
you can't be something you don't believe,
you can't live if you linger in tomorrow,
you can't be in the past and expect to see me,
but you can only love when you're in the right here, right now.

Jess "Chief" Brynjulson

#72. You can only see progress when you start doing something, so don't expect anything without your efforts.

Auliq Ice

#73. Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.

Alton Brown

#74. Love hits you when you least expect it, grabs you, sucks you in whole, and twists you around until you could hardly breathe. Love hurts like a sucker punch, that's both glorious and beautiful. Falling for Summer was like that for me, every time.

Kailin Gow

#75. Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don't expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.

Helena Bonham Carter

#76. What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Thomas Sowell

#77. The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy.

Cheryl James

#78. If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.

Kerry King

#79. When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

Zig Ziglar

#80. Each morning when you wake, and everyday for the rest of your life ... Expect the best of yourself, and accept the rest from yourself.

Hal Elrod

#81. When you achieve excellence,
expect some to oppose you.
When you achieve brilliance,
expect several to resent you.
When you achieve greatness,
expect many to envy you.
When you achieve transcendence,
expect plenty to hate you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#82. [W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to be available to work all the time. Scheduling is impossible.

Linda Tirado

#83. Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you.

Britney Spears

#84. There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.

Michael Jordan

#85. When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

Simon Sinek

#86. It made me expect certain things. You taught me not to expect those things. You made me believe I could be wanted. You wanted me when no one else ever has.

Abbi Glines

#87. Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.

Gerald Hausman

#88. If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.

Kristin Cavallari

#89. 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

#90. A nation that honors God will always be honored by God. I've seen nations that have dishonored God: God has been taken out of schools, the government, the military; and when you take Him out of a nation, how can you expect God to protect this nation?

Nick Vujicic

#91. You will receive most when you will expect least.

Santosh Kalwar

#92. When you're as small as I am, people don't expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

Daniel Rodriguez

#93. Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.

Rick Warren

#94. For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

Stephen Sondheim

#95. Because when you least expect it...love happens.

Sophia Tallon

#96. In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what's about to happen. When you feel helpless, you're far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.

Chris Hadfield

#97. I came to Tasmania in search of an elusive species. And I found it. But never in my wildest dreams did I expect to find you. And I believe I found a type of butterfly that exists only in my belly which makes itself known when I think of you.

N.R. Walker

#98. When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.

Nancy Werlin

#99. There are things in the wood, things you wouldn't expect. There's a laugh behind a tree when nobody's around to make it. A flash of red from branch to branch, like a spark from a fire, but nothing's burning.

Rebecca Hahn

#100. When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.

Steve Valentine