Anticipation Quotes

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.

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Stress does not come from problems. It originates from fear which comes from the anticipation of problems.

The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.

You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.

The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

After winter, spring never forgets to come.

Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end’s impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously?

When you see someone on top, look away and don't try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top.

With God, a mountain is only a road waiting to happen.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.

I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.

Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.

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

Cursing will create a hole in a whole Heart.

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.

If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.

The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do.

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

Ironically, just when she needed to get as much sleep as possible to prepare her for the next few days, her excited anticipation kept her awake long into the night.

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.

Would that we could choose the last image we see before death closes our eyes forever to this world.

I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy.

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

I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.

Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.

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