Quotes About Foresight

We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Luck is good planning, carefully executed.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Hindsight is always zo/20.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

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

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

The past is the tomorrow that got away.

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do.