Expects Quotes

344 quotes by 293 authors

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. — Henry Ward Beecher
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return. — Sandra Bullock
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. — Frank A. Clark
The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display… — Laozi
Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless… — Edward McKendree Bounds
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a… — Samuel Johnson
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of… — Georges Clemenceau
If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . .… — Henry David Thoreau
An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. — Laurence J. Peter
What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty. — Leslie Caron
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is… — Sivananda
Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar. — E. H. Harriman
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange… — Ayn Rand
That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded… — Lisa Bonet
He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance… — Benjamin Franklin
A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to… — William A. Niskanen
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman… — Oscar Wilde
If there is someone in need whom you wish to help, whether the initiative came from him or from you, do no more than he… — Ibn Hazm

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