Quotes about Foresight

None of us plan--or intend--to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18 KJV)

Both stupid and lacking in foresight those poets of old who wrote songs for revels and dinners and banquets - pleasant sounds for men living at ease; but none of them all has discovered how to put to and end with their singing or musical instrument - grief, bitter grief from which death and disaster cheat the hopes of a house.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.