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Quotes About Expectation

One swallow never makes a summer.
~ John Heywood
It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.
~ Zooey Deschanel
I feel a new era coming in, standing on the shore, waiting for it to slowly greet me.
~ Charlotte Eriksson
I always know what to expect of the things of Mother Earth. Sometimes they are cruel, but it is hard, clean cruelty. They don't torture you with their own weakness.
~ Anna Lee Waldo, Sacajawea
The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later she'll have to keep it.
~ Mark Beltaire
Good things come to those who wait.
~ Jess C Scott
All things come to those who wait.
~ Violet Fane
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
Patience is the absence of expectation.
~ Shinichi Suzuki
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, Tancred
Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.
~ Antonio Machado
During the night we must wait for the light.
~ Francis de Sales
Surfing teaches patience . On land, surfers cannot will a swell to appear. They have to wait for nature to make the call. So surfers wait . They keep their eyes on the horizon and they wait.
~ Shaun Tomson
Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner.
~ Chris d'Lacey, The Fire Within
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
~ Cesare Pavese
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.
~ Randy Pausch
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
~ William Faulkner
We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
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
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
~ Ayn Rand
Do not be in a hurry, wait for the harvest.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita