The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.

Expect abundance to receive abundance.

Do not demand from others what you would not expect of yourself.

I honestly didn’t expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.

I expect that in 40 years’ time I’ll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

Men expect too much, do too little.

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else’s hands, ready to be crushed at any...

So it won’t be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

I am actually a very unspeaking person. I’m not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don’t know why. They think I have this kind of assurance.

If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

I honestly think that with our generation – Alex Wang, Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Christian Cota, Robert Geller – there’s a different expectation of what our behavior should be. People expect designers to be good...

the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst.”If you expect the...

It’s probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it’s a failure.

I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.

The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it’s going to be long and there’s reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.

But I think competition is good. I am very competitive, if no one has noticed. And I think that if we face off in the future, we’ll have an opportunity to make a strong case...

The attention from the fashion world is something that I didn’t expect. I’ve shot with Bruce Weber and met Karl Lagerfeld. Having that kind of attention is really exciting.

The last thing we expect others to do, its the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.

I understand people who boo us. It’s like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you’re not, you have a right to complain.

I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.

Confidence is always expecting a positive outcome. When you walk into a situation, be it personal or professional, when you expect things to go well, you are confident and more often than not, that confidence...

Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects...

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

Stop making flamboyant promises. Earn the people’s trust first, then do more than they expect

You can ask God for anything. He will answer you. Be patient to wait and expect the answer.

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.

I don’t expect people who’ve enjoyed ‘Spy Kids’ will enjoy ‘Repo! the Genetic Opera!’

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was...

I don’t expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.

We do live in a world with lunatic and mentally corrupted people, and still you expect I shouldn’t smash some faces.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

You can get on with your job. I’m going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that’s what they expect from me and I’m not going...

I feel comfortable in saying that the traction for TotalGuide and Rovi Cloud Services is strong, and I expect it to continue to strengthen.

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

We all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in...

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

I’m beginning to think that to hope isn’t the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos.(h.5)

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

Patience… Is the last hope any individual can have during sabbatical. When the expected doesn’t happen… Patience, expect the unexpected. When you are true to something that you have done; the results will come. Better...

I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, ‘You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing’, that I think is culpable. I don’t know how much more they...

I’m not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn’t know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they...

Sometimes when you’re editing a movie, you have the thing that you don’t expect – which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I’ve always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.