Quotes about Expectation
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.
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
- Elisabeth Elliot