Best 276 quotes in «anticipation quotes» category

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

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

Fear manifested invites danger.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

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.

God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

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

He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that... every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

Hope begins in the dark.

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

Hope is only the love of life.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

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

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

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

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

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

I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up... He makes you go, 'Oh my God!' when you get to the top before you come down. It's just the same as structuring a show or a dance.

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

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.