Quotes on Anticipation

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.