To Expect Nothing Quotes

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it. — James Patterson

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army. — H. H. Asquith

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. — Sandra Bullock

To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Dominique Francon — Ayn Rand

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. — Ivan Turgenev

If you expect nothing but success, then you will be a success. — Debasish Mridha

The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream. — Christopher Pike

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Expect nothing and you don't need the courage to hope, nor the strength to withstand disappointment when nothing comes. — Glen Duncan

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. — James Hillman

A girl has to dream and expect more. If women expected nothing from men, men would never amount to much. — Natasha Boyd

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking. — Marilyn Manson

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all. — John H. Lienhard

I have nothing to offer anybody expect my own confusion. — Jack Kerouac

Have some whiskey,there's nothing like it for clearing the head. You must expect to be thick-witted if you insist upon drinking beer. — W. Somerset Maugham

come to be entertained, but who expect nothing special. — Brandon Sanderson

When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing. — Sunday Adelaja

Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything. — Tony Gaskins

One cannot expect men not to get drunk when there is nothing to do! — Nikolai Gogol

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn. — Arthur Dean

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens — J. J. Watt

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain. — Francois Fenelon

Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up. — William Wrigley Jr.

Only when I hold onto nothing can I be the best, only then can I be what they expect me to be. — Ally Condie

Nothing will hold you back because you expect the unexpected. With a clear vision for your life, you are better prepared to combat any opposition. — Farshad Asl

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

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to. — Barry Sanders

As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven. — Saint Patrick

Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything ... — Harry Houdini

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all! — Ernie J Zelinski

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

Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse. — Thomas Ligotti

Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing. — Debasish Mridha

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. — Ram Dass

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control. — Eric Maisel

Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by. — George Washington

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing. — Anne Desclos

You must expect from me nothing but the melancholy effusions of a broken Heart which is ever reverting to the Happiness it once enjoyed... — Jane Austen

You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you. — Halsey

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good. — Fulton J. Sheen

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

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return. — Muhammad Ali

In life, you should expect anything to come up in any time, after that nothing will be an unexpected guest for you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. — Anatole Broyard

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it. — Malcolm Forbes

Seek to give much
expect nothing. — Jonathan Goforth

We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible. — Justin Martyr

If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned. — Robert Kiyosaki

You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing. — Dalai Lama

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing ... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid. — Yahya Jammeh

I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns. — Howard Norman

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. — Ayn Rand

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect. — Paulo Coelho

Expect nothing, and by Christ, you're entitled to even less. — Ken Bruen

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing. — Darren Criss

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it. — Ruth Bernhard

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return — Anonymous

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. — Dogen

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be. — Joan Didion

All human eyes are useless. You see only what you expect to see, and nothing more; and what is the use of sight like that? — Lauren Oliver

If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. — Peace Pilgrim