Anticipation Quotes - Page 16

• The things you don't have control over, you don't worry about. I have control over my attitude, my perception, how I do things, and you do the very best job you can. Other people have control over other things and you let them do their jobs.

  Mike Sherman

  Jobs, Attitude, Best Job

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• [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Example, May

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• [Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Worry, Joy

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• Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Men, Goal

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• The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].

  Dean Acheson

  Worry, One Day At A Time, Trying

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• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Attitude, Two Sides

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• Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Doe, Trouble, Prove

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• The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Sin, Cynicism, Reincarnation

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.434, Read Books Ltd

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• Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

  Faye Dunaway

  Soul, Pairs, Handcuffs

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• Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Abnormal, Problem, Harness

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it!]

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Believe, Bridges, Self

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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

  Past, Realistic, Beats

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• True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!!

  Karl Ludwig von Knebel

  Strong, Character, Mind

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• ... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

  Anne Perry

  Heart, Optimism, Brain

  Anne Perry (2011). “Callander Square”, p.184, Open Road Media

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• [Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

  A.J. Cronin

  Worry, Sorrow, Today

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• [Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

  George Sand

  May, Lost, Hard

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• Hope is itself a species of happiness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Species

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.426

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• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hope, Life Is, Figures

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• Studies of older Americans find that one of the best predictors of happiness is whether a person considers his or her life to have a purpose. Without a clearly defined purpose, seven in ten individuals feel unsettled about their lives; with a purpose, almost seven in ten feel satisfied!

  Mark Lepper

  Purpose, Study, Seven

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• [Constant curiousity leads to happiness:] I wake up curious every day and every day I'm surprised by something. And if I can just recognize that surprise every day and say, 'Oh, that's a new thing, that's a new gift that I got today that I didn't even know about yesterday,' it keeps me going. It keeps me more than going. It keeps me enthusiastic and grateful!

  Michael J. Fox

  Grateful, Yesterday, Today

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• In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled! [People who get upset and worried at the first sign of misfortune are only making their situation worse and thereby doubling their troubles. Stay calm and happy. Cool and joyful heads are more likely to survive and prevail.]

  Daniel Defoe

  People, Upset, Stay Calm

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• The trick is to never lose hope!

  Tupac Shakur

  Never Lose Hope, Tricks, Loses

  Song: 16 on Death Row, 1997

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• We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

  Seneca the Younger

  Hurt, Dark, Reality

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• Go forward with joyful confidence.

  George Eliot

  Joyful

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• There is no greater illness than discouragement!

  Yisroel Salanter

  Illness, Discouragement, Greater

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