Quotes about Foresight

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Prov. 29:18a KJV). Unrestrained behavior leads eventually to destruction. People who have no vision also have no goal or purpose—nothing to shoot for. They have nowhere to go in life and, therefore, go nowhere.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Most people think of "vision" as the ability to see the future. But in today's rapidly changing world, vision is also the ability to accurately assess current changes and take advantage of them. Vision is being alert to opportunities.

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.