Anticipation Quotes - Page 2

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

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

Anticipation forward points the view.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Desire makes everything blossom

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.

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

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

We usually get what we anticipate.

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

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

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

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.

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.