Here are a few noteworthy “planning quotes” to plan your time around:
1. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. -John Lennon
2. Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. -Proverb
3. He who fails to plan, plans to fail. -Proverb
4. Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. -Alan Lakein
5. A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. -Brian Tracy
6. Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. -William A. Ward
7. Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark. -Richard C. Cushing
8. If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. -Edward Everett Hale
9. It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. -Eleanor Roosevelt
10. You can never plan the future by the past. -Edmund Burke
11. Plans are nothing; planning is everything. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
12. Long-range planning works best in the short term. -Doug Evelyn
13. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. -Unknown
14. A goal without a plan is just a wish. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
15. A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. -George S. Patton
16. When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. -Thomas Paine
17. Adventure is just bad planning. -Roald Amundsen
18. But the delights of solitude don’t only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. -Anna Neagle
19. Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. -James A. Garfield
20. I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back. -Ben Chandler
21. The man who is prepared has his battle half fought. -Miguel de cervantes
22. The best preparation for tomorow is to do today’s work superbly well. -Sir William Osler
23. If you don’t have a plan of life, you’ll never have order. -Josemmaria Escriva
I know there are many other great planning quotes out there. Do you have any you can share? If not, which of these do you like the most? I really like #6.
-Shawn
Nice quotes Shawn. I like all of them. Good day
I like #7 (re: Noah’s ark) the best 🙂
I really like # 14
nice quotes
thanks. it was really very motivating, though i liked no 8 most.
The Task ahead is smaller than the Power from behind.
Hi Shawn,
What’s up? Hope all is well with you. Same here, i also like quotation # 6
“Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.” -William A. Ward
A lot of plans keeps playing in my head today and this quote comes so timely. Thanks for that. It was like you were able to read my mind today…:-)
God bless…
In order to achieve greatness in life, one must dream great dreams & be inspired or inspire other to truly believe in it to accomplish it. Once that is accomplishes, the dream is inevitable
One of my favorites…..
STOP TRYING TO FIT IN WHEN YOUR CREATED TO STAND OUT!
I love planning Quotes! This is a great bunch of them. Here are a few more to add to the list.
– “A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.” John Argenti
– “A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.” Confucius
– “There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” Douglas H. Everett
-“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” Peter Drucker
Ormond Rankin
There are a bunch more Planning quotes at: http://ormondrankin.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/20-quotes-the-importance-of-planning/
Ormond!
I love #6 ……… Really motivational!!!!!
Thanks…glad you like them. 🙂
Thank you so much, for putting these out!
I look forward to these both morning and night
and they have and are helping me start again
after my husband passed and I retired, 3 weeks
A part. I got lost and you truly are showing me the way back. GOD BLESS YOU MIGHTILY
Wow, Linda! All I can say is wow! Thanks for sharing this with me. I did not expect to hear such praise; and I’m so sorry to hear about your husband. Do you have friends & family around to fall back on? A community or church group? Please keep me posted; I would like to get some updates on how you’re doing week to week. -Shawn