Quotes About Anticipation

Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line, they prepared for the worst.

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if ... ?" or better still, "How can we make it happen?"

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.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.

You can only predict things after they've happened.

Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

When you're all dressed up and no place to go.

It's a long time between drinks.

Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

The present is great with the future