Future Plans Quotes

• The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

  Jim Moran

  Positive, Future, Swimming

  Jim Moran (1996). “Jim Moran, the Courtesy Man: Inside the Heart of One of the Most Successful Marketers in the Automobile Industry”

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• We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Future, Home, Blow

  "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Here's to Future Days", 2009), (2005 - ).

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• The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

  Mark Twain

  Future, Interest, My Future

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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• Planning is bringing the future into the present.

  Mike Vance

  Preparation, Time Management, Poor Planning

  Mike Vance, Diane Deacon (1996). “Break Out of the Box”, Career PressInc

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• A goal without a plan is just a wish.

  Larry Elder

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

  Gloria Steinem

  Class, Planning Ahead, Goal

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.272, Open Road Media

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• How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

  Marian Keyes

  Laughing, Future Planning, Alcohol Recovery

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.550, Penguin UK

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Morning

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Success, Time

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.2, Ballantine Books

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• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Art, Business

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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  Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Change, Wise

  1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

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• Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

  Lewis Carroll

  Travel, Wonderland, Way

  The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll Pig and Pepper

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

  Edmund Burke

  Time, Smart, Inspiration

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 73

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• The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Business, Future

  "Technology, Management and Society".

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• Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Flower, Cutting, Planning

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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