Quotes about Expectation
Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
— Charles Spurgeon
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
— Benjamin Disraeli
During the night we must wait for the light.
— Francis de Sales
Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."
— Max Lucado
We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.
— Rob Bell
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
— Alain de Botton
Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.
— JM Coetzee
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We tend to get what we expect.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.
— Earl Nightingale
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
— Will Rogers
We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.