Quotes About Anticipation

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

Prospect is often better than possession.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

It is always dullest before the yawn.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

The future comes one day at a time.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

There is no data on the future.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.