51 Quotes About Anticipation

When you’re anticipating something, you are expecting it to happen. There can be many different types of anticipation, such as waiting for something to happen, anticipating the result of something, anticipating the reaction of someone, or anticipating the reaction of yourself. Whatever your anticipation is, it can be used to help motivate yourself or calm yourself down. Keep reading these great anticipation quotes for more motivation!

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Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Dr. Seuss
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Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming. Nicholas Sparks
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It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way. Criss Jami
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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. Julian Barnes
...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its...
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...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. Gaynor Arnold
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The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair. . Steven L. Peck
Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick...
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Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows. And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise. Richelle E. Goodrich
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It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today. Yevgeny Zamyatin
The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half...
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The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that. Steve Toltz
The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the...
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The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire. Craig D. Lounsbrough
The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns....
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The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come. Sharon Weil
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The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late. Douglas MacArthur
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To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good. Criss Jami
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? Robin Hobb
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Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return. Criss Jami
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Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events. Ana Monnar
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Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge. Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives Sunday Adelaja
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I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. Criss Jami
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Talking is great, but don't ignore the value of listening. Pay attention to the words being spoken. Some people just love the sound of their own voice. And, when another person speaks, they are only anticipating to compete, challenge, or question what is being said. You can miss out on some important wisdom always running your mouth. Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end’s impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously? Teo Yi Han
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People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materialises. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals - you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment. . Russell Brand
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He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Just like he'd imagined himself doing when he bought it. That might even be why he bought it - so he'd have this moment, under her hair. He ran his fingertips along the chain and settled the pendant on her throat. Rainbow Rowell
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I wish to go down under the waters–the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where allthat is, here, existing, isis only to be lost within the susurrationsand the rumours of water and the evening starwe wait for... John Daniel Thieme
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I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future. Lionel Suggs
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It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars. Lisi Harrison
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There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine Pushpa Rana
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Sometimes what we lack is the thrill of anticipation or the delay of gratification. We enjoy things far more when we've really desired them but had to wait for them. The real value is found in our self control and patience, which allows us to delay gratification and build anticipation. Letting desire build is an abstract way to achieve balance and moderation in your life.. Moderation just may be the answer to boredom - go figure! -- pg 145-146 . Cristin Frank
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Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience. Dexter Palmer
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Cursing will create a hole in a whole Heart. Naveed Baji
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The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it. Criss Jami
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The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do. T.F. Hodge
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The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now. Alexander Shulgin
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Her fingertips reached to trace the damage, but he grasped her hand with his own. He leaned down, far enough that the dark ends of his hair brushed feather-light against her face, caught in her lashes. Kelly Creagh
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Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror. Sarah Dessen
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... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive. Albert Camus
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Ironically, just when she needed to get as much sleep as possible to prepare her for the next few days, her excited anticipation kept her awake long into the night. Emily Arden
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I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will live to tell next time you are standing fatefully in front of the washing machine. Kristie LeVangie
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I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big. A.B. Shepherd
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Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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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
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.. since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in whose company one has tasted it, when one has not reduced it to a general idea which makes one regard them thenceforward as the variable instruments of a pleasure that is always the same. Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman's company, or as the cause of the uneasiness which, in anticipation, one then feels. Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself. . Marcel Proust
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I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives. Spectator No. 7
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. Unknown
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Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught. Pawan Mishra
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It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life. I'm totally enthralled by him. I want him, every part of him, and I desperately want him to feel the same way about me. Serena Grey
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...the way a man might hesitate before he kissed a woman, to gauge her reaction, to see how he would be received. Perhaps he would hesitate to prolong the moment, that ideal moment of anticipation, sometimes better than kiss itself. Stephenie Meyer
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And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future. Caroline Kepnes