Expects Quotes
344 quotes by 293 authors
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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
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I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.
— Sandra Bullock
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A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
— Frank A. Clark
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
— Laurence J. Peter
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What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.
— Leslie Caron
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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