Quotes about Foresight

Our definition of wisdom? The ability to see into the future the consequences of your choices in the present.

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

prudent people look as far down the road as possible when making decisions.

Lord, help us to see trouble coming long before it gets here. And give us the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

While nobody plans to mess up his life, the problem is that few of us plan not to.

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.