Expectation

“The Way of Heaven takes from what has excess and augments what is deficient.
The Way of human beings is not like this.
It takes from the deficient and offers it up to those with excess.
Who is able to offer what they have in excess to the world?
Only one who has the Way!
This is why sages act with no expectation of reward.
When their work is done, they do not linger.
They do not desire to make a display of their worthiness.”
- Daodejing Ch. 77

~ Laozi and Phillip J Ivanhoe, The Daodejing of Laozi