Quotes about Expectation
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flower to bloom?
— Khalil Gibran
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
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