(929 quotes found)
“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”
Seneca
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”
Norman Cousins
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
Aristotle
“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy”
Lao Tzu
“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of troubles”
Elbert Hubbard
“What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw be”
Samuel Johnson
“We usually get what we anticipate.”
Claude M. Bristol
“An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.”
Samuel Smiles
