Richard Nixon Quotes

Fully consider the future and the immediate results of all undertakings, and the good and bad sides of all past actions.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit. It is but common prudence to see the way out before we venture in.

It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.

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

I'm pretty good at thinking about everything - all of my consequences - before I make a decision, and I think about everything that's going to happen because of that decision. I'm a Libra, and I'm very strategic.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

I used to make snap judgments, moved quickly. It's more important to be thoughtful, think of the consequences of your decisions.

We must ensure that decisions we make today do not come back to haunt us tomorrow.

You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.

I hope people will think very carefully about the future.

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

You do what you do. Or you do what you have to do. I don't know how to explain it better. I think that in the moment, you can't see connections, but sometimes afterwards you do.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.