Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime! — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker Copy Share Image
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If today you have nothing to be happy about, thank God for the potential of tomorrow. — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The preparation for something worse is typically the very thing that makes it exactly that.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?' — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation. — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself) emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties… — Roger Crawford Copy Share Image
Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then… — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or,… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Beth,” he said simply, his flawless face lit up with anticipation. “There is no doubt in my mind that we belong together,… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
“Perhaps life’s simplest and most frequent mistake is to take who we are for granted in our anxious anticipation of who we… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“And then I knew that despite all the pain and hard work all of us had gone through, despite the sadness and… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
In Christ's resurrection, therefore, the Christian man sees the earnest and pledge of his own resurrection; and by it he is enheartened… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living. — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.” — John Green Copy Share Image
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
![“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it!]” quote by Francis Marion Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a33/francis-marion-crawford-42257_anticipation_to-expect-defeat-is-nine-tenths-of-defea_1445105.jpg)
![“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in our 'supposed loss'. It can be helpful to think of the loss of that blessing as simply necessary to make way for another different blessing].” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/700/c-s-lewis-2-132_anticipate_when-we-lose-one-blessing-another-is-oft_2230316.jpg)
![“Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would…” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d4/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_achieve_around-every-corner-is-another-gift-wait_218443.jpg)
