Quotes of Foresight - somelinesforyou

“ Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. ”

- Henry R. Luce

“ In life, as in chess, forethought wins. ”

- Charles Buxton

“ The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand. ”

- Seneca the Younger

“ The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. ”

- David Russell

“ Forethought spares afterthought. ”

- Amelia E. Barr

“ Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities. ”

- Aesop

“ It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ Whatever is, is in its causes just. ”

- John Dryden

“ Fear is the mother of foresight. ”

- Thomas Hardy

“ Fear is the mother of morality. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. ”

- Napoleon

“ Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. ”

- Loren Eiseley

“ There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. ”

- Unknown

“ It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. ”

- W.H. Auden

“ Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. ”

- Seneca

“ You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ In every living thing there is the desire for love. ”

- D.H. Lawrence

“ In today's complex and fast-moving world, what we need even more than foresight or hindsight is insight. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. ”

- Thomas Tusser

“ If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. ”

- Confucius

“ Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on? the world of beauty around us. ”

- Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

“ When any great design thou dost intend,Think on the means, the manner, and the end. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. ”

- Glen Beaman

“ Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep. ”

- Confucius

“ The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt
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