Quotes About Foresight

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

Battles may sometimes be won by the brave, but wars are always won by the clever.

It's a sorry fact that the man who strikes first usually strikes last,

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it,

Man plans, and god laughs. Like the ant and the grasshopper.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Throughout their whole existence men are blind; So, Faust, be thou like them at last.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

He carefully studies the position that he intends to conquer.

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

Chess is a miniature version of life.

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Thou wert wise to chisel for me: «Taken from the evil to come».

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.