Quotes About Planning

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy 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

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

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

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

The Economist, December 4, 2003”
― William Gibson

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

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

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

“I’ve got a sizeable retirement nest egg. It’s an ostrich egg, and it’s going to make an omelet so big that it’ll produce enough leftovers for decades.
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― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

“…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

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

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

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
― Mike Tyson

“Always, Always have a plan”
― Rick Riordan

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

“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

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

“If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

“Your biggest enemy is the unknown and assumptions.”
― LTG Christianson

“Man does not fail to plan, he just fails to plan.”
― Frederick Douglass, A Will to be Free 1

“If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.”
― Kelly Cutrone

“It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

“When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley.
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!

(To A Mouse)”
― Robert Burns, The Works of Robert Burns

“Fail to plan, plan to fail.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History

“Failing to plan is planning to fail”
― Alan Lakein

“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. ...

Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path. ”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

“You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities