Quotes about Foresight
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
— Bill Gates
Don't forget your history nor your destiny.
— Bob Marley
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
— Earl Nightingale
The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.
— Rick Warren
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.
— James Goll
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.
— Edith Wharton
Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.
— Edmund Burke
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
— Seneca
Before beginning, plan carefully.
— Cicero