Anticipation Quotes

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain.

If today you have nothing to be happy about, thank God for the potential of tomorrow.

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

The trick is to never lose hope!

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.

For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Anticipation forward points the view.

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

We usually get what we anticipate.

I know men and women can banish worry,
fear and various kinds of illnesses,
and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts.
I know! I know! I know! I have seen such incredible transformations performed hundreds of times.
I have seen them so often that I no longer wonder at them.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

How deceitful hope may be,
yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

Desire makes everything blossom

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.