Planning Quotes

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
― Gloria Steinem

“In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
― Rose Tremain

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.”
― Yogi Berra

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
― Warren Buffett

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”
― Benjamin Franklin

“When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”
― Chaim Potok, Davita's Harp

“Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.”
― Bob Carter

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”
― Brian Tracy, Personal Success

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

[State of the Union Address January 11 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”
― Winston Churchill

“I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”
― Jack Campbell, Dauntless

“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.”
― Robert Burns, Collected Poems of Robert Burns

“Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Always, Always have a plan”
― Rick Riordan

“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”
― Brian Tracy, The Gift of SelfConfidence

“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup