Anticipation Quotations | Page 2

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear...

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

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

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!

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

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain...

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ...

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

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

Fear manifested invites danger...

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

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

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

How many would die did not hope sustain them...

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

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

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

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

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

Anticipation forward points the view.

I have to show who I am, play with the crowd, play with the camera. When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation, "What is he going to do?"

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

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

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that!

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

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

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!

Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would fly.

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

...Anxiety beclouds the future...

Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.

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.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

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

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

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

Not to anticipate is already to moan.

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

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

Desire makes everything blossom

Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

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

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

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

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.

The trick is to never lose hope!

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

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

Hope is itself a species of happiness...

Hope is necessary in every condition.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.