Best 276 quotes in «anticipation quotes» category

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

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

We are facing incredible challenges in the economy of the U.S. and the economy of the globe, but the stock market, we never know whether it's over-discounted or under-discounted or got exactly right its anticipation.

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

We fear something before we hate.

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

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

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

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

When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

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

While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

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

You have to learn to deal with your own, for want of a better word, insecurities, fears. They don't go away. And that's normal. It's human. You don't ever really want to lose that. What you want to do is learn to manage it and to work with yourself. But there's a part of you that has anticipation and fear. And so the important thing to know is that there's nothing wrong with that and that that's normal. You have to learn how to deal with it, certainly, but it doesn't keep you from doing it. And that doesn't go away ever.

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

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

You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

You have infinite value and worth! You already know you have strengths and inner resources. But you have even more strengths and resources that you are not yet fully aware of, and they will enhance your life as you become more aware of them. There are many more strengths and inner resources that you can gain and build up from now on.

After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over. ("New York Blues")

A major component of health and wellness, gratitude helps us to appreciate the blessings we already have and sparks the anticipatory pleasure of blessings to come.

And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they’ve lost, forever.

Anticipation whets the wit, and wets the whistle.

Anticipation can be a good thing." "And frustration can drive a person crazy.

...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.

Anticipation is not to expect less from you, or to be more than what you can be.

Before we leave, we pick up the casings, bright red in the dull dead leaves. My cheek is also red. The next day a bruise will show. But for now it is hot, and I am happy, exhilarated, still quivering with the anticipation of something already passed.

Before or After? Fern: Before, anticipation is usually better than the real thing. Ambrose: After. The real thing, when done right, is always better than a daydream. Fern wouldn't know, would she? She let that one slide.

Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.

Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.

But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature,' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with.

Building anticipation into one's preaching simply calls for one basic understanding of the task of the pulpit: the goal is not to get something said but to get something heard.

But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Cursing will create a hole in a whole Heart.

Conflicts of anticipation do not have a complete sense. They are not educative.

Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.