John C. Maxwell Quotes

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

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

It's better to be prepared than to get ready.

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.

I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

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

hindsight is not a strategy.

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

Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

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

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.