Quotes About Forethought

#1. The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families, and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

Octavia E. Butler

#2. A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.

Octavia Butler

#3. Change takes time, forethought and knowledge, as well as an envisioned goal.

Obiora Embry

#4. A wine cellar requires order, forethought and good taste,' the old man used to say. 'These are the virtues that made Britain great.

Ken Follett

#5. The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

Confucius

#7. I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.

Greg Kinnear

#8. The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Euripides

#9. I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest gun handler on the planet.

Gini Koch

#10. In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Buxton

#11. One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

Mercedes Lackey

#12. Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#13. To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.

Lord David Cecil

#14. Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery.

Euripides

#15. I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

Robin McKinley

#16. The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

James Anthony Froude

#17. Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes adn inclinations is the most important consideration.

Agatha Christie

#18. Sir," he said calmly, "that was the worst line I've ever heard, not only insulting but showing a severe lack of forethought. You're obviously bothering the young woman. You should leave before she does permanent damage to you.

Kim Harrison

#19. He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

John Irving

#20. If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.

Max Heindel

#21. He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

Sun Tzu

#22. We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

John Tillotson

#23. Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
[Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

Tacitus

#24. Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

Sun Tzu

#25. Chores are easier if forethought is given to them and they are looked upon as little pleasures to perform instead of inconveniences that steal time and try the patience.

Richard Proenneke

#26. And then, without forethought or warning, she loved him.

Kris Tualla

#27. Biggest dream?" I was proud of this one because I knew it would stump him. It required forethought.
"Kiss you."
"That's not funny," I said, holding his eyes, grateful I didn't stutter.
"No, but it made you blush.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#28. The point is that by exercising your capacity for forethought and planning, you strengthen your prefrontal cortex and its connection to the ventral striatum.

Anonymous

#29. Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Friedrich Schiller

#30. You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

Daley Thompson

#31. Worry is forethought gone to seed.

William George Jordan

#32. Yet at least we can admire the wise Prearrangement which has ordained that, as they have no hopes, so they shall have no memory to recall, and no forethought to anticipate, the miseries and humiliations which are at once a necessity of their existence and the basis of the constitution of Flatland.

Edwin A. Abbott

#33. Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Robert Dale Owen

#34. As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
- (1772-1834)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#35. The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable.

Mario Puzo

#36. For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Amelia Barr

#37. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#38. Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Thucydides

#39. The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

Robert Barr

#40. Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing

Thomas A. Edison

#41. The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Thornton T. Munger

#42. I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

Padgett Powell

#43. Cowl's apprentice was tough and competent, but no amount of training or forethought can prepare you for the sight of an angry dinosaur coming to eat your ass.

Jim Butcher

#44. Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet.

Charles Spurgeon

#45. In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#46. All this intelligent and careful work revealed a man of great forethought. Yet you could see in Mr. Wicks's eyes
as he stood in the shade of the terminal awning, all that tweed and education waving to us, as one by one each bus pulled out for the noisy drive into the city
that he had failed.

Bill Buford

#47. The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.

Carroll Smith

#48. ... In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it.

Jesse Ball

#49. Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

Amanda Schull

#50. And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.

Kahlil Gibran

#51. Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.

Wendell Berry

#52. Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.

Michael A. Stackpole

#53. The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

Bertrand Russell

#54. I stopped short in the path today to admire how the trees grow up without forethought regardless of the time and circumstances. They do not wait as men do - now is the golden age of the sapling - Earth, air, sun, and rain, are occasion enough - .

Henry David Thoreau

#55. A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.

Salmon P. Chase

#56. Great is the art,
Great be the manners, of the bard.
He shall not his brain encumber
With the coil of rhythm and number;
But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
He shall aye climb
For his rhyme.
"Pass in, pass in," the angels say

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#57. Treasures are not won by care and forethought
but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

Michael Moorcock

#58. I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.

George W. Bush

#59. Bees... by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought, knew that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material.

Pappus

#60. People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.

Thomas Nixon Carver

#61. Most of the time you can get away with launching a terrible product, or with not washing your hands, but one time in a thousand, you will kill a person, or a company.

Megan McArdle

#62. Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.

T.F. Hodge

#63. Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee

Harold Holzer

#64. Nothing is more imminent than the impossible ... what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

Victor Hugo

#65. Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

Aesop

#66. Though the house itself was a fortress, still, Isaac Penn had thought to make sure that anyone who did manage to break in would be kept busy. Thus the vault was not a vault but rather a solid plug of molybdenum steel which extended into the wall for five feet.

Mark Helprin

#67. If they had given in to passion, throwing caution to the wind,they would have lost everything.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#68. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Octavia Butler