You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a putter in your hands, when you ought to have a driver.

                                                                                              —Will Rogers

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.            —Loren Eiseley

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.            —Glen Beaman

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.    —Mavis Gallant

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

                                                                                                        —Aesop

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.          —Seneca

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.                —Seneca the Younger

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.                                                                                     —Chinese proverb

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.          —Winston Churchill

It takes little talent to see what lies under one’s nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. 

                                                                                             —W.H. Auden

May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.                                                         —Irish Blessing