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
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