Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

We tend to get what we expect.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

You have committed a double mistake, firstly by not keeping the engagement yesterday and secondly, by coming when you were not expected.