He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had…

My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He…

— Wynton Marsalis

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.”

— Anne Frasier

“I thought of nothing but her. I expected everything from her. I was ready to lay everything at her feet. I was not in…

— Hermann Hesse

“She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a…

— George Orwell

Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come…

— Julia Quinn

We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we…

— Chogyam Trungpa

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

— Tony Gaskins

When you give, expect nothing from people and everything from Allah.

— Omar Suleiman

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

— Lisa Gardner

Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness…

— Colin Powell

“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence, and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

— Lawrence Fagg

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop…

— Alice Walker

Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.

— Jules Olitski