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We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]! — Zig Ziglar

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. — Khaled Hosseini

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face. — Billy Graham

We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering! — James MacDonald

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction. — Samuel Johnson

How many would die did not hope sustain them ... — Owen Feltham

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine. — Ross Parsley

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present. — Baruch Spinoza

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

Happiness is the anticipation of future happines. — Anna Carey

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

The anticipation of excitement can lead to disappointment — Lonny Lee

As you read the Word of God today, read it with expectancy and anticipation for the changes it will make in you. — David Jeremiah

I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made my heart ascend to grace. — Lionel Suggs

Day says the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it.- Calvin — Bill Watterson

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. — Gustave Flaubert

Therefore, foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful. — Epicurus

Anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. — Gaynor Arnold

She didn't know if this excitement was fueled by her ambition to find out something that nobody else knew. Or by the anticipation of finding out. — Antonia Michaelis

Life is a gift. Treat each moment with anticipation and gratitude. — Christopher Earle

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization. — Amelia Earhart

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows! — Elizabeth Bibesco

He wasn't sure what was worse: leaving or the anticipation of leaving. — Maggie Stiefvater

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. — John Green

When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe. — Dodie Smith

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it. — Rex Brandt

Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure — Lettie Cowman

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

Desire makes everything blossom — Marcel Proust

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime! — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure. — Dale Rex Coman

Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?
- Epithalamion — Edmund Spenser

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought. — Marilynne Robinson

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events." — Mahatma Gandhi

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour. — W. Somerset Maugham

After winter, spring never forgets to come. — Debasish Mridha

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!! — Benjamin Franklin

One spark of genius,suddenly the entire world is filled with anticipation — Elliot Kesebonye

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life. — Martina Hingis

As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation - that is, in the past or in the future. — Marcel Proust

Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real — Plutarch

He's Excited. Like a small boy, he's iridescent with anticipation and excitement. It makes me smile. — E.L. James

It aroused my paranoia (which is always there in ready supply, since it is preferable to poor powers of anticipation). — Norman Mailer

Neither memory nor anticipation is much interested in Father Time, and all dreamers, artists and lovers are partially delivered from his tyranny; — E. M. Forster

Fear is the anticipation of pain; it most often never becomes true. — Debasish Mridha

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. — Elbert Hubbard

Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come — Og Mandino

Anticipation is no longer needed- because the moment is now. — David Levithan

Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you. — Ko Joon-hee

Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking. — Diana Gabaldon

All food eaten in anticipation of a kiss is delicious. — Maggie Stiefvater

Even though it's meant to be the season of jollity and goodwill, there's something delicious about the anticipation of a Christmassy ghost thrill. — Mark Gatiss

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. — Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is terrible except fear itself. — Francis Bacon

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities. — Donald Barthelme

I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar's, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did. — David Blaine

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

New Year eve is an ecstasy of new anticipation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? — Robin Hobb

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear. — Maria Edgeworth

I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread. — Brian A. McBride

Anticipation is foreplay, and...pain is the purest form of pleasure — James Crow

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

A great book increases my heartbeat as if I'm prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths. — Carmen DeSousa

Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told ... — Phil Collins

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown. — Lou Boudreau

Perhaps he anticipated our anticipation of his anticipation . . . — Tarun Shanker

Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water. — Mark Helprin

Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. — Alain De Botton

As a reader I loathe introductions ... Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. — Harper Lee

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

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

There is no greater illness than discouragement! — Yisroel Salanter

Not to anticipate is already to moan. — Leonardo Da Vinci

We were good together. Not in retrospect, not out of nostalgia. Not in anticipation. But here and now good. Very good. — Eshkol Nevo

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come. — Priscilla Shirer

Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil. — Martin Luther

Fear gone, there can be no hatred. — Mahatma Gandhi

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know? — Miranda Lambert

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action — John Irving

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. — Al Gore

Sometimes, it's good to wait. The anticipation makes it more fun when you get there. — Ted Chiang

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise. — Alfred North Whitehead

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it ... — Francis Quarles

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope. — Robert H. Schuller

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins. — Jonathan Agnew

That anticipation spiked in a way I felt it in my nipples. My nipples. Oh dear. — Kristen Ashley

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible. — William Carlos Williams

Sex is about anticipation not culmination. — Chloe Thurlow

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. — Seneca.

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

When you surrender, you live in eager anticipation of the surprise. The dual weights of yearning and despair are cast off. — Annette Vaillancourt

Anticipation is its most effective, most seductive, when the next moment remains a mystery. — Jason Luke

While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch. — Patience Strong

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple. — Lucy Grealy