Andy Stanley Quotes

I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

Sometimes you’ve got to think about how it will look later

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

You have to choose your future regrets.

A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

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.

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

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

There is only one conflict, and that’s between short-term and long-term thinking.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

To be honest, I'm not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.

I think we've all done things that are a detriment to ourselves, and we've all made good choices that have brought good things for us.

The decisions I make with my career is not just about me. It doesn't affect just me.

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

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

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

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

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

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

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

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

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.