Browsing Topic Best Forethought Quotes

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

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

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay–of hard forethought–of pains–of steadiness–of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Not evil. Moronic, which isn’t quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn’t stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he’s doing good, that he’s always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up … anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or … leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads.

A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.

Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry: — I move not without Thy knowledge!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.

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

Forethought spares afterthought.

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

Worry is forethought gone to seed.

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