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Quotes About Anticipation

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
~ Thomas E. Dewey
Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
~ Thornton Wilder
The future is the shape of things to come.
~ H. G. Wells
The future is the past in preparation.
~ Pierre Dae
The future is hope!
~ John Fiske
The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.
~ Anonymous
Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
~ Lord Dunsany
"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.
~ Alice Childress
The past is the best way to suppose what may come.
~ Lord Halifax
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
And now, Lord, what wait I for?
~ Bible
Reappraise the past, reevaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.
~ William Cowper
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
~ Samuel Johnson
Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.
~ Anonymous
As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
~ Blaise Pascal
The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.
~ Mark Rutherford
Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.
~ Anonymous
I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.
~ Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day, a happy day.
~ Helen Boehm
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
~ William Hazlitt
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
~ Samuel Johnson