Planning Quotes - Page 2

• Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Courage, Travel

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• It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

  Whitney M. Young

  Inspirational, Opportunity, African American

  "Independent Lens: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". TV Series, 2013.

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• A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Goal, Action, Daydreaming

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• The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

  J. P. Morgan

  Success, Wise, Mean

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• You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Political, Politics

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Night, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Expectations, Unhappy

  As quoted in "Perfecting Private Practice" by Joan Neehall-Davidson, (p. 95), 2004.

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• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  The High School Teacher, Vol. XI, 1935.

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Mind Blowing, Failing

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• Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.

  Sun Tzu

  Greatness, Sage, Done

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

  William Osler

  Fit, Schemes, Circumstances

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• Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Preparation, Essentials, Useless

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• Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.

  Emil Ludwig

  Intention, Pretension

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• He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

  Victor Hugo

  Morning, Time, Labyrinth

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• Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Disappointment, Long

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• To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Decide Upon, Soldier

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• A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

  Arnold Bennett

  Firsts, Unexpected, Late

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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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• I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

  Heath Ledger

  Past, Diaries, Tomorrow

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

  Suze Orman

  Thoughtful, Financial, Daily Life

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• Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

  Evan Esar

  Sight, Hindsight, Foresight

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