Expect Quotes

If we expect to “know” the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we may have a hard time seeing the whole picture, since the truth is a willful construction that allows us often merely to “guess”. ("Hinter der Mattscheibe")

Erik Pevernagie

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

Some days I feel more like a scribe than a creator. I will have the major points fleshed out, but there is always a turn or two that I didn't see coming, or which came earlier than I expected it to, or not at all...

How can I be myself, when others expect me to be someone else?

Anthony T.Hincks

With full mugs and expectant hearts-Acknowledge His presence.Listen.Give Him your day, each day.Every day.

Eric Samuel Timm

You cannot study the same day of a test, and expect to do your very best.

Charmaine J.Forde

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.

Lailah Gifty Akita

People expect what they expect.. They never realize the possibility of surprise beyond expectations..!

Never expect anything from anyone, if you wants to live a happy life.

What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.

Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the “I” entails what I want; the “me” what others expect of me and the “others” what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", “surroundings” and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )

Erik Pevernagie

Expect abundance to receive abundance.

Debasish Mridha

Never expect anything without being prepared to give.

Debasish Mridha

It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights.

A healthy person that uses medical oxygen to perform their job on a daily basis should expect to eventually become a sick person.

Patience... Is the last hope any individual can have during sabbatical. When the expected doesn't happen... Patience, expect the unexpected. When you are true to something that you have done; the results will come. Better late than never. As it is said' when a door is shut, opens an other.. "Patience

Stephen Manoharan

In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be, we can escape a blank and void existence, which is linked to wrecking ennui. Boredom often slips into revulsion and nausea, for not being able to find an identity and not succeeding in acquiring individuality with the quality of authenticity. ("Like a frozen image")

Erik Pevernagie

It's so tempting to resist a little gift when you're expecting the otherwise.

Toba Beta

Isn't unconditional love supposed to work both ways? How can we expect unconditional love for ourselves if we are not willing to grant others the same mercy?

Christina Engela

Never expect people to understand, respect or love you , they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough.

If you expect me to respect your private beliefs and faith and your rights and dignity as a person, how can you actually expect that from me if you are unwilling to reciprocate and continue to incite hatred and the vilification of mine.

Christina Engela

I got a whiff of minty fresh breath. Definitely not, what I'd expect from a wild wolf.

How you expect the heaven, when you make someone else’s life hell.

As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

You cannot expect a corrupt law enforcement system to prosecute the illegal activities of corporations and their government minions.

How safe and secure is the internet?Well.....Would you leave all your worldly belongings on the road and expect them to be there when you came back seven years later?

Anthony T.Hincks

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

Don't expect everyone to admire this world is made up of hate and fire.

Srishti

You cannot expect a man to love you, but not because of your body or physical construction. It is like giving a man the option between choosing you and a monkey.

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

Henrietta C. Mears

God expects from man a responsible attitude towards his given task

Don't just believe, EXPECT!! Make preparations to succeed & be open to receive!

I never said I was sad, I’m just pessimistic,” said Alecto. “Expect the worst, that way you’ll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.

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.

There is no record in Scripture that an angel visited John’s cell to explain the meaning of his persecution. This great, godly man who was the designated forerunner to Jesus went through the same confusing experiences as we. It is comforting to know that John responded in a very human way. He sent a secret message to Jesus from his prison cell, asking “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?” (Matthew 11:3). Have you ever felt like asking that question?

James C. Dobson

Don't wait for what you don't have. Use what you have, begin now and what you don't even expect will come alongside with excess of what you expect. Go, make it happen.

Israelmore Ayivor

Wisdom is the ability to make wise decisions and pursue them. The bible said "wisdom is the principal thing". This means it's the number one thing ever that you cannot bypass and expect to succeed!

Israelmore Ayivor

People who are achievers were once dreamers; but not all dreamers eventually become achievers. Before a person gets to become who he/she was meant to become, he/she must be responsible and take the necessary steps expected.

Israelmore Ayivor

You don’t expect the goat to hatch the hen’s eggs. People do what they know very well. Don’t expect someone who doesn’t know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.

Israelmore Ayivor

People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

You obey orders, because if you do not, you cannot expect the same from your men. You are part of the wolf, not the whole wolf. I would have thought you had learned that when you were a boy, but it is not the case. A wolf cannot have more than one head, General, or it tears itself apart.

I don't expect forgiveness.I only expect acceptance.

Anthony T.Hincks

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

Dejan Stojanovic

You can't have a wrong mentality about life and expect that you will see the bright side of life.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

Creativity isn't meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity.

It is unreasonable to expect all children to develop correctly in unnatural man-made electromagnetic radiation fields.

I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.

Expect it, believe it, trust yourself and the process, and allow it to come to you.

When you manage your expectations, you let yourself soak in the joy of what is actually happening around you.

Andrea Goeglein

Don't get mad, William," he finally said, provoking the distraught to look up at him, "I know it's hard, an' unfair, but you can't let yourself become angry. You're too nice, - too good, - if you can't at least hope for a possibility, then what happiness can you expect to have? You have to hold on to it, or else you've got nothing..." (77)

Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping that when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by the beasts below. Hoping you pull up anything at all.

Pray for what you want.Expect your answer in due time.Be strong to wait for the arrival of answer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With every moment of heart ache,I get a little closer to 'Acceptance' somehow,Denying to expect what's best,But to approve it's the best for now!

What can we expect from an empty shell Where many hearts of pearl once beat to dwell Waves fail to break hard layer's bond of loveWailing shore sends memoir to the sky above

If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest

It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet.

Where our own mind doesn’t listen to us, how can other’s minds follow what we say? One should not have such expectation at all.

When we fail to reflect on the undercurrents of the circumstances of our life, we may have permanent misgivings about the quality of our interpretations. A lucid reading of our acts and our desires helps us to avoid tumbling into a frustrating gap between what we expect and what others expect. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)

Erik Pevernagie

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