Expecting Something Quotes:

Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.

- Joan Lunden

source: Joan Lunden (2001). “Wake-up calls”, McGraw-Hill Companies

topic: Real, Expecting Something, Different, Moments Of Happiness

All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.

- Bernie Mac

topic: Awards, Upset, Expecting Something

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

- Katharine Hepburn

source: Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

topic: Love, Inspirational, Romantic, Bridal Shower, Inspirational Romance

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Life, Happiness, Real, Expecting Something, Expecting Things

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

- Marilyn Manson

topic: Sacrifice, Return, Expecting, Expecting Something, Expecting Something In Return

Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.

- Tara Brach

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Kindness, Expecting Something In Return, Each Day, Expecting Something

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Opposites, Ideas, Want, Expecting Something, No Exit

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

- Bernie Mac

source: "Bernie Mac Interviewed - 'Pride'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 20, 2007.

topic: Upset, Way, Expecting, Expecting Something

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

- Kris Allen

topic: Giving, Want, Expecting, Expecting Something

You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.

- Beth Moore

topic: Different, Way, Expecting, Expecting Something

God spoke to me clearly and said, 'Did I give my son Jesus on the cross expecting nothing in return?' God bankrupted heaven and gave the best gift he could give. He gave the best offering he could give. What did God need? He needed sons and daughters, he gave the very thing he needed. You can bring God a gift fully expecting something in return. Get to the phone!'

- Paul Crouch

topic: Daughter, Jesus, Son, Expecting Nothing In Return, Expecting Something

Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Simple, Expecting Something In Return, Waiting, Expecting Something

Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!

- Red McCombs

topic: Mean, Wrestling, Winning, Expecting Something

I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with this analysis, to accept the trifles of life and be content with them, as many others do.

- Ivan Goncharov

topic: Passion, Soul, Deception, Frankness, Expecting Something

I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I'm trying to please everybody, and ya just can't do that ... at least I can't.

- Tim Allen

topic: Commitment, Reality, Knowing, Expecting Something

If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.

- David Cottrell

topic: Giving, Debt, Bonus, Swapping, Expecting Something

She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with a little more flair." "Well, I left my armor and warhorse at home," she said. "You're just upset because your big University brain couldn't think of a way, and my plan is brilliant.

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Home, Thinking, Ideas, Expecting Something

But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Dark, Expecting Something In Return, Please Me, Expecting Something, Bangles

There are Millions of people in this world. Then why are you born? The reason is, Allah is expecting something from you, which is not possible by Millions.

- Shahid Afridi

topic: People, World, Reason, Expecting Something

Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.

- David

topic: Opportunity, Knowing, Giving, Expecting Something, Expecting Something In Return